Quadro RTX 8000 vs Tesla S1070

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated60
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data1.87
Power efficiencyno data13.31
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGT200BTU102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 June 2008 (16 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,999 $9,999

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 cores2404608
Core clock speed610 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)800 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate48.80509.8
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPS16.31 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs80288
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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB48 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.37.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2008 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 800 Watt 260 Watt

RTX 8000 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 358.3% more advanced lithography process, and 207.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla S1070 and Quadro RTX 8000. We've got no test results to judge.


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