GeForce RTX 3070 vs RTX A5000 12Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1725MHz vs 1695MHz)
Lower TDP (220W vs 230W)
RTX A5000 12Q 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
20310
RTX A5000 12Q
+36%
27770
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 30
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1170 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
64
5888
Shading Units
8192
184
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
96
184
Tensor Cores
256
46
RT Cores
64
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
230W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GA102
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
8 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
