AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +760%

27.77 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

64

1792

Shading Units

8192

112

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

230W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti PRO 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

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