Quadro RTX 8000 vs GRID A100B
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100B to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro RTX 8000 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 76% (1770MHz vs 1005MHz)
Lower TDP (260W vs 400W)
GRID A100B 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro RTX 8000
+17%
16310
GRID A100B
13890
Graphics Card
Aug 2018
Release Date
May 2020
Quadro
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
1005 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
6144bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1866GB/s
Render Config
72
SM Count
108
4608
Shading Units
6912
288
TMUs
432
96
ROPs
192
576
Tensor Cores
432
72
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
169.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
509.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
32.62 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
16.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
509.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
260W
TDP
400W
600 W
Suggested PSU
800 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
GA100
TU102-875-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
7 nm
18.6 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
754 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
8.0
6.6
Shader Model
N/A
