NVIDIA A30 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A30 and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A30

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1440 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 250 Watt
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 vs 13 August 2018
Boost clock speed 1440 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • 11.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
  • Around 16% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 147584 vs 127026
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1005 MHz vs 930 MHz
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 147584 vs 127026

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A30
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
127026
147584
Name NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
Geekbench - OpenCL 127026 147584
PassMark - G3D Mark 19278
PassMark - G2D Mark 858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 401.574
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 6432.348
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 43.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 215.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2101.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 21578
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3290
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA100 TU102
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 13 August 2018
Place in performance rating 101 104
Launch price (MSRP) $9,999
Type Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1440 MHz 1200 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz 1005 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.32 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3584
Pixel fill rate 138.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 322.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 54200 million 18,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 8-pin EPS 2x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

OpenCL 3.0
DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 933.1 GB/s
Memory bus width 3072 bit
Memory clock speed 1215 MHz, 2.4 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type HBM2e