NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

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NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 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 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1350MHz vs 1250MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 Max Q +85%

16.59 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

8.96 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 Max Q

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Aug 2017

Quadro Ampere-M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

720 MHz

Base Clock

1138 MHz

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

6144

Shading Units

3584

192

TMUs

224

96

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

129.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

259.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

16.59 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

16.59 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

259.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Vega 10

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GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

210W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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