Quadro RTX 8000 and A2 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 8000

A2

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU102

GA107

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1395 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

509.8

70.80

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

12.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2