NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1695MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

7552 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 8Q +1925%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2018

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

64

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

8192

Shading Units

640

256

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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