AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q +1041%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

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RTX A5000 12Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon Sky

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1170 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

64

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

8192

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA102

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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