Nvidia RTX Quadro 8000 vs GeForce 3090Ti Benchmark – Can you game on a Quadro?

In this article, we tested the Nvidia RTX Quadro 8000 vs Geforce 3090ti GPU performance to see which is better for gaming and answer the question, can you game on a Quadro?

Before the latest and fastest GPU Nvidia, RTX 3090ti, came to the market; we saw the release of the RTX Quadro 8000 GPU in the market by Nvidia. This particular GPU of Nvidia holds a massive amount of 48GB of video memory with an old blower-style air cooler system. Buyers of this specific GPU don’t use this hardware for gaming purposes. Nvidia has made this video card specifically for developers based on VFX, animations, or computers meant to perform complex scientific calculations.

So we decided to test this graphics card to see how much performance it can deliver for gaming purposes. To make comparisons, we also used the fastest Gaming Graphics card from Nvidia, GeForce RTX 3090Ti. The Quadro card has the same electronic architecture and mechanism as a gaming GPU. But can it give good gaming performance? Let’s check it out.

So without further delay, let’s check out our experiment of Quadro 8000 vs Geforce 3090ti Nvidia GPUs.

Quadro 8000 vs GeForce 3090Ti Nvidia GPU

Here are the full specification details of Quadro 8000 and GeForce 3090Ti Nvidia GPU

Specs vs GPU	GeForce 3090ti	Quadro 8000
GPU name	GA102	TU102
Video Memory	24 GB	48 GB
Architecture	Ampere	Turing
Foundry	Samsung	TSMC
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0×16	PCIe 3.0×16
Base Clock	1560 MHz	1395 MHz
Boost Clock	1860 MHz	1770 MHz
Memory Clock	1313 MHz 21GBPS Effective	1750MHz 14GBPS Effective
Bandwidth	1008 GB/s	672 GB/s
Shading Units	10752	4608
Pixel Rate	208.3 Gpixel/s	169.9 Gpixel/s
TDP	450W	260W
PSU Required	850W	600W
CUDA	8.6	7.5
RT Cores	84	72

Quadro 8000 vs GeForce 3090ti Experiment System

Here are the system details that we used for Quadro 8000 vs GeForce 3090ti Gaming benchmark experiment.

Processor	Intel Core-i9 12900k Processor
Motherboard	Gigabyte Aorus Master Z690 Motherboard
CPU Cooler	NZXT Kraken X73 RGB 360MM AIO Liquid Cooler
Graphics Card	Zotac RTX 3090Ti Graphics Card Nvidia RTX Quadro 8000
RAM	XPG Lancer (16×2) 32GB DDR5 RAM 5200Mhz
SSD	Samsung 970 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply	Coolermaster V850 850W PSU
Case	Coolermaster HAF 700 EVO
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10

These are the Quadro 8000 vs Geforce RTX 3090Ti Performance Results.

Game Name vs GPU Benchmark	Quadro 8000	GeForce 3090Ti
Cyberpunk 2077	32 fps avg	58 fps avg
God of War	60 fps avg	100 fps avg
Red Dead Redemption 2	45 fps avg	86 fps avg
Forza Horizon 5	66 fps avg	95 fps avg
Hitman 3	66 fps avg	109 fps avg
PUBG	70 fps avg	131 fps avg
Marvel’s Spiderman	37 fps avg	81 fps avg
Microsoft Flight Simulator	61 fps avg	106 fps avg

Quadro 8000 vs GeForce 3090ti Final Verdict

The above chart shows that the Quadro fails to deliver good gaming performance even with a massive 48GB video memory. The primary reason behind this is that the RTX 3090Ti is a Gaming Graphics card while the Quadro 8000 is a workstation-level graphics card. Also, it does not support dedicated gaming drivers released by Nivida. Instead, the Quadro uses the RTX Studio drivers. With a tag of “48Gb video memory”, ordinary people would think that Quadro 8000 will be the best for gaming, but it is not so.

The 48GB high bandwidth memory is used for workstation-level purposes like making complicated animations, professional design (CAD), computer-generated imagery applications, different digital content creation applications, complex scientific calculations and machine learning. So our suggestion, if you want to use GPU for gaming, then go for Nvidia GeForce 3090Ti. And if you are looking for a high-end workstation GPU, then there is nothing better than an Nvidia Quadro 8000.

So this was all about Quadro 8000 vs GeForce 3090ti Nvidia RTX GPU. If you feel we have missed out on anything, let us know in the comments below.

That’s all, Folks!

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