NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1695MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

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

6144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 8Q +577%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Oct 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

850 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

64

SM Count

-

8192

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

230W

TDP

250W

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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Tahiti

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GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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