NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 12Q +472%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Nov 2013

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

64

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

8192

Shading Units

2560

256

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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