The Quadro RTX 8000 is an enthusiast-class professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on August 13th, 2018. Built on the 12 nm process, and based on the TU102 graphics processor, in its TU102-875-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. The TU102 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 754 mm² and 18,600 million transistors. It features 4608 shading units, 288 texture mapping units, and 96 ROPs. Also included are 576 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The card also has 72 raytracing acceleration cores. NVIDIA has paired 48 GB GDDR6 memory with the Quadro RTX 8000, which are connected using a 384-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1395 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1770 MHz, memory is running at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective). Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 draws power from 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 260 W maximum. Display outputs include: 4x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C. Quadro RTX 8000 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. The card measures 267 mm in length, 111 mm in width, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 9999 US Dollars.