NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 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 5 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1350MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+345%
16.59 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
3.723 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
May 2015
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Crystal System
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
1365 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
2048
192
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.09 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
116.4 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
3.723 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.723 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
232.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
250W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Amethyst
-
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
5 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
366 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
