NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs AMD FirePro M6000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1350MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
5504 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
Lower TDP (43W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+1520%
16.59 TFLOPS
FirePro M6000
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Jul 2012
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
720 MHz
Base Clock
-
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
640
192
TMUs
40
96
ROPs
16
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
43W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Heathrow
-
GPU Variant
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
123 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
