AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

7872 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +5487%

27.77 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Apr 2021

FireStream

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

64

320

Shading Units

8192

16

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

230W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GA102

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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