NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

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NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1695MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 8Q +457%

27.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Sep 2014

Quadro Ampere

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

64

SM Count

-

8192

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

64

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

230W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GM204

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GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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