NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2475MHz vs 1695MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (200W vs 230W)
NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+4%
29.15 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 8Q
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 40
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1170 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
64
5888
Shading Units
8192
184
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
96
184
Tensor Cores
256
46
RT Cores
64
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
230W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA102
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
