Quadro RTX 8000 and Radeon HD 2950 XTX - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 8000

Radeon HD 2950 XTX

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

TU102

RV670

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1395 MHz

777 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

320

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

110 Watt

Texture fill rate

509.8

12.43

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

2.3 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

72.06 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

10.1 (10_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3 (full) Shader Model6.54.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A