GeForce RTX 4060 vs Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated51
Place by popularitynot in top-1002
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data100.00
Power efficiencyno data30.71
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU102AD107
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$9,999 $299

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 cores46083072
Core clock speed1230 MHz1830 MHz
Boost clock speed1620 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate466.6236.2
Floating-point processing power14.93 TFLOPS15.11 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs28896
Tensor Cores57696
Ray Tracing Cores7224

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 x8
Length267 mm240 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 12-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 amount48 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2125 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s272.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

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 18 May 2023
Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 8000 Passive has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4060, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 126.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 8000 Passive and GeForce RTX 4060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 8000 Passive is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4060 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive
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