Quadro RTX 8000 Passive: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro RTX 8000 Passive sales 13 August 2018 at a recommended price of $9,999 . This is a Turing architecture desktop card based on 12 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 48 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 672.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 260 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro RTX 8000 Passive: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2021) | |
| GPU code name | TU102 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 13 August 2018 (5 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $9,999 | |
| Current price | $2880 (0.3x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro RTX 8000 Passive's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro RTX 8000 Passive's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4608 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1620 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 18,600 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 260 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 466.6 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro RTX 8000 Passive and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro RTX 8000 Passive: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 48 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 672.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro RTX 8000 Passive. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro RTX 8000 Passive, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | |
| CUDA | 7.5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro RTX 8000 Passive is Radeon PRO WX 9100.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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