PNY Intros the Passive-Cooled, 250W, Quadro RTX 8000 & RTX 6000 GPUs

PNY Intros the Passive-Cooled, 250W, Quadro RTX 8000 & RTX 6000 GPUs

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https://wccftech.com/pny-passively-cooled-quadro-rtx-8000-and-rtx-6000-gpus/

PNY has recently announced that the Quadro RTX 8000 and Quadro RTX 6000 GPUs can be passively cooled. Both of these cards are $6,000 and $4,000, respectively. PNY has also stated that these passively cooled versions only sacrifice a little bit of performance to achieve a passively cool design with a cooling capacity of up to 250W.

The CUDA cores remain precisely the same, being 4608 CUDA cores. The boost clock has been lowered by 8% down to a still very respectable 1,620 MHz, and the base clocks have been dropped by about 12%, the memory clock has also received a small performance hit of 7% to bring it from 14 Gbps to 13 Gbps. The memory bandwidth has also been reduced from 672 GB/s to 624 GB/s, the standard TDP of Quadro RTX 8000 is 295-watts while the passively cooled variants have a lowered TDP of 250-watts.