AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +744%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

28

Compute Units

-

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)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA102

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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