Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking122not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLITU102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$9,999

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores51204608
Core clock speed1556 MHz1230 MHz
Boost clock speed1733 MHz1620 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data260 Watt
Texture fill rateno data466.6
Floating-point processing powerno data14.93 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB48 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed10000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data672.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 13 August 2018
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm

RTX 8000 Passive has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile and Quadro RTX 8000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Quadro RTX 8000 Passive is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile
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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive
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