AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +393%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

64

2816

Shading Units

8192

176

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

230W

950 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA102

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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