Quadro RTX 8000 vs Arctic Sound 1T
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 1T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro RTX 8000 's Advantages
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
Lower TDP (260W vs 350W)
Arctic Sound 1T 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro RTX 8000
+47%
16310
Arctic Sound 1T
11060
Graphics Card
Aug 2018
Release Date
Jan 2021
Quadro
Generation
Xe Graphics
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
72
SM Count
-
4608
Shading Units
6144
288
TMUs
192
96
ROPs
96
576
Tensor Cores
-
72
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
169.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
509.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
32.62 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
22.12 TFLOPS
16.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.06 TFLOPS
509.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.765 TFLOPS
Board Design
260W
TDP
350W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU102
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
TU102-875-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
12 nm
Process Size
10 nm
18.6 billion
Transistors
8 billion
754 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.5
