NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2018
Jan 2013
Generation
Quadro
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1395 MHz
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Boost Clock
1770 MHz
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Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
48GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
72
—
Shading Units
4608
2048
TMUs
288
128
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
576
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RT Cores
72
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L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
169.9 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
509.8 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
32.62 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
16.31 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
509.8 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU102
Tahiti
GPU Variant
TU102-875-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Turing
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
18.6 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
754 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
260W
250W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
7.5
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
13,586
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
6,871
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OctaneBench
337
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3DMark Speed Way
3,121
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Blender
2,844
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.