RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs Quadro RTX 6000 Passive

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated4
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.58
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU102AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,299 no data

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 cores460814080
Core clock speed1305 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate449.31,082
Floating-point processing power14.38 TFLOPS69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs96176
TMUs288440
Tensor Cores576440
Ray Tracing Cores72110

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 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 16-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 amount24 GB48 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s864.0 GB/s

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 285 Watt

RTX 6000 Passive has 9.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 6000 Passive and RTX 5880 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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