AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
6656 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (230W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 12Q
+1146%
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
FirePro
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
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
64
1536
Shading Units
8192
96
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
230W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA102
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
