Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking44not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation22.36no data
Power efficiency15.60no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU102TU102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date20 September 2018 (6 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 $9,999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores43524608
Core clock speed1350 MHz1230 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1620 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate420.2466.6
Floating-point processing power13.45 TFLOPS14.93 TFLOPS
ROPs8896
TMUs272288
Tensor Cores544576
Ray Tracing Cores6872

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount11 GB48 GB
Memory bus width352 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth616.0 GB/s672.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI+-
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 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 September 2018 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 11 GB 48 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 260 Watt

RTX 2080 Ti has an age advantage of 1 month, and 4% lower power consumption.

RTX 8000 Passive, on the other hand, has a 336.4% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and Quadro RTX 8000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 8000 Passive is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive
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