NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (230W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 8Q
27.77 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3090
+28%
35.58 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Sep 2020
Quadro Ampere
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1170 MHz
Base Clock
1395 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1219 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
768.0GB/s
Bandwidth
936.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
64
SM Count
82
8192
Shading Units
10496
256
TMUs
328
96
ROPs
112
256
Tensor Cores
328
64
RT Cores
82
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
162.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
189.8 GPixel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
556.0 GTexel/s
27.77 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
35.58 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.58 TFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
230W
TDP
350W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
GA102
-
GPU Variant
GA102-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
8 nm
Process Size
8 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
