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.

NVIDIA A30

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000

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: 147317 vs 127071

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	147317 vs 127071

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

127071

147317

Name	NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
Geekbench - OpenCL	127071	147317
PassMark - G3D Mark		19862
PassMark - G2D Mark		880
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	99	96
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