Quadro RTX 8000 Passive vs Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB

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Primary details

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

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ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP100TU102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date20 June 2016 (8 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,699 $9,999

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 cores35844608
Core clock speed1190 MHz1230 MHz
Boost clock speed1329 MHz1620 MHz
Number of transistors15,300 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate297.7466.6
Floating-point processing power9.526 TFLOPS14.93 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs224288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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 connectors1x 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB48 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed715 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth732.2 GB/s672.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.07.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 June 2016 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 260 Watt

Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB has 4% lower power consumption.

RTX 8000 Passive, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB and Quadro RTX 8000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB
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