RTX A40 vs Quadro RTX 8000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking60not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.87no data
Power efficiency13.87no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU102GA102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$9,999 no data

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 cores460810752
Core clock speed1395 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate509.8589.7
Floating-point processing power16.31 TFLOPS37.74 TFLOPS
ROPs96112
TMUs288336
Tensor Cores576336
Ray Tracing Cores7284

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-pin8-pin EPS

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 GB48 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1812 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s695.8 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-C3x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 5 October 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 8000 has 15.4% lower power consumption.

RTX A40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 8000 and RTX A40. We've got no test results to judge.


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