AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 Passive
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Aug 2018
Generation
Solar System
Quadro
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1230 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1620 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
48GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
672.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
4608
TMUs
80
288
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
72
Tensor Cores
—
576
RT Cores
—
72
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
155.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
466.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
14.93 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
466.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
29.86 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
TU102
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
TU102-875-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
18.6 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
754 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
260W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
—
7.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.