AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (1695MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

3.315 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +737%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/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)

768 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

230W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

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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