NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

5376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 8Q +393%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

1350 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

64

SM Count

-

8192

Shading Units

2816

256

TMUs

176

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

64.00 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

230W

TDP

580W

550 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

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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