AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1695MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +577%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

8192

128

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

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

GA102

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

230W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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