NVIDIA RTX A4000 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A4000 and 48GB VRAM Quadro RTX 8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A4000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (140W vs 260W)
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1770MHz vs 1560MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A4000
+17%
19.17 TFLOPS
Quadro RTX 8000
16.31 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX A4000
11079
Quadro RTX 8000
+22%
13586
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX A4000
5367
Quadro RTX 8000
+28%
6871
3DMark Speed Way
RTX A4000
2838
Quadro RTX 8000
+9%
3121
Blender
RTX A4000
+12%
3190
Quadro RTX 8000
2844
OctaneBench
RTX A4000
+4%
352
Quadro RTX 8000
337
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Aug 2018
Quadro Ampere
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
1395 MHz
1560 MHz
Boost Clock
1770 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
72
6144
Shading Units
4608
192
TMUs
288
96
ROPs
96
192
Tensor Cores
576
48
RT Cores
72
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
149.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
169.9 GPixel/s
299.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
509.8 GTexel/s
19.17 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
32.62 TFLOPS
19.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.31 TFLOPS
299.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
509.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
140W
TDP
260W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
TU102
GA104-875-A1
GPU Variant
TU102-875-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Turing
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
12 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
18.6 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
754 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
8.6
CUDA
7.5
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
