NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1695MHz vs 1076MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 336.6GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (230W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
6.06 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 8Q
+358%
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1170 MHz
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
64
2816
Shading Units
8192
176
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
230W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GA102
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
