AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

NVIDIA RTX A1000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1462MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

RTX A1000 +64%

6.737 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

RTX A1000

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2024

Sea Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

727 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1462 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

18

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

-

RT Cores

18

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.78 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

105.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.737 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.737 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GA107

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8.7 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

200 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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