AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6870M

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

5344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q +1436%

16.59 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

VS

RTX A5000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2021

Vancouver

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

720 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

800

Shading Units

6144

40

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

129.6 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.59 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

259.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

GA104

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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