Radeon Graphics 128SP vs Quadro RTX 8000 Passive

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU102Raphael
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)27 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$9,999 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 cores4608128
Core clock speed1230 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1620 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million3,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate466.617.60
Floating-point processing power14.93 TFLOPS0.5632 TFLOPS
ROPs968
TMUs2888
Tensor Cores576no data
Ray Tracing Cores722

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 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount48 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/sno data

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-CMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 27 September 2022
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics 128SP has an age advantage of 4 years, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 1633.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 8000 Passive and Radeon Graphics 128SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 8000 Passive is a workstation graphics card while Radeon Graphics 128SP is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive
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AMD Radeon Graphics 128SP
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