Radeon R9 295X2 vs RTX A5000 8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A5000 8Q 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (230W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
RTX A5000 8Q
+384%
27770
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1170 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
64
2816
Shading Units
8192
176
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
230W
900 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GA102
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.3
Shader Model
6.7