NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 is a workstation graphics card released on August 13, 2018, built on the Turing architecture. It has 4,608 shading units, 48 GB of GDDR6 memory, a boost clock of 1.77 GHz and a 260 W board power rating. It scores 19,589 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12.0, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Depth: 40 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 scores 19,589 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #99), measured across 91 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 857.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 averages DirectX 9 210 fps, DirectX 10 136 fps, DirectX 11 187 fps, DirectX 12 77 fps and GPU Compute 9,792 ops/s, across 91 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 48 GB of memory, a core clock of 1395 MHz, DirectX 12.0 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2019-03-14. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 is based on the Turing architecture and uses the TU102-875-A1 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 has 4,608 shading units, 288 texture mapping units and 96 render output units.
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 runs at a base clock of 1.40 GHz and boosts to 1.77 GHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 is equipped with 48 GB of GDDR6 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 has a board power rating of 260 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 was released on August 13, 2018 and launched at a price of $9,999.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 supports DirectX 12.0, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Features
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 7.5Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 supports CUDA (Compute capability 7.5) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1 and decode for AV1.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes | Supported4:4:4: Yes |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (4th Generation, decoder engines: 1).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 have?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 has 48 GB of GDDR6 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 has a board power rating of 260 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 scores 19,589 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #99. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 77 fps.
Does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 has CUDA compute capability 7.5.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 use?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 released and how much did it cost at launch?
The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 was released on August 13, 2018 and launched at a price of $9,999.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
1 filled value
- Architecture: Turing (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip TU102 -> Turing. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
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