Quadro RTX 8000 vs RTX A6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro RTX 8000 's Advantages
Lower TDP (260W vs 300W)
RTX A6000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1800MHz vs 1770MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro RTX 8000
16310
RTX A6000
+137%
38710
3DMark Time Spy
Quadro RTX 8000
13586
RTX A6000
+30%
17742
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Quadro RTX 8000
6871
RTX A6000
+35%
9324
3DMark Speed Way
Quadro RTX 8000
3121
RTX A6000
+59%
4965
Blender
Quadro RTX 8000
2844
RTX A6000
+89%
5387
OctaneBench
Quadro RTX 8000
337
RTX A6000
+78%
600
Graphics Card
Aug 2018
Release Date
Oct 2020
Quadro
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
1800 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
72
SM Count
84
4608
Shading Units
10752
288
TMUs
336
96
ROPs
112
576
Tensor Cores
336
72
RT Cores
84
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
169.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
509.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
32.62 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
16.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
509.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
260W
TDP
300W
600 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
TU102
GPU Name
GA102
TU102-875-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
18.6 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
754 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
