NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 48GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 24GB
The Quadro RTX 8000 and the Quadro RTX 6000 deliver near-identical FP16 throughput (131 vs 131 TFLOPS dense). The Quadro RTX 8000 also carries 24 GB more memory (48 GB vs 24 GB).
NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 48GB
Full specs →NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 24GB
Full specs →Specifications
Performance (TFLOPS)
FLOPS by Precision
What actually differs
Both GPUs launched in 2018: the Quadro RTX 8000 on Turing and the Quadro RTX 6000 on Turing.
Dense throughput for the Quadro RTX 8000 against the Quadro RTX 6000: FP64 0.5 vs 0.5 TFLOPS, FP32 16 vs 16 TFLOPS, FP16 131 vs 131 TFLOPS. Sparse figures, where the vendor publishes them, appear under each dense number in the performance table.
Memory is 48 GB against 24 GB, fed at 672 GB/s versus 672 GB/s. More memory per GPU means larger models fit before you have to shard across cards, which often matters more than raw TFLOPS for inference.
Power budgets are 295 W for the Quadro RTX 8000 and 295 W for the Quadro RTX 6000. At FP32 that works out to 0.06 against 0.06 TFLOPS per watt.
For LLM training and inference, weight the FP8 and FP16 rows and memory capacity most heavily. For scientific and HPC workloads, the FP64 row is the one to read.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Quadro RTX 8000 faster than the Quadro RTX 6000?
They are close on paper: both deliver about 131 TFLOPS of dense FP16 throughput. Memory, bandwidth, and power are the deciding differences.
Which has more memory, the Quadro RTX 8000 or the Quadro RTX 6000?
The Quadro RTX 8000 carries 48 GB of VRAM versus 24 GB for the Quadro RTX 6000. Memory bandwidth is 672 GB/s for the Quadro RTX 8000 and 672 GB/s for the Quadro RTX 6000.
How much power do the Quadro RTX 8000 and the Quadro RTX 6000 draw?
The Quadro RTX 8000 is rated at 295 W TDP and the Quadro RTX 6000 at 295 W.
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