NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 154% (2535MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 3GB)

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

16128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada +2149%

92.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

Apr 2013

Quadro Ada

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2175 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

2535 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

18176

Shading Units

2048

568

TMUs

128

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

486.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

1440 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

92.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

92.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Malta

AD102

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

375W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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