NVIDIA A2 vs AMD FirePro W5000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+257%
4.531 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Aug 2012
Quadro
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
768
40
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Pitcairn
-
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
2.8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
212 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
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
