AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock1350MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
5184 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 Max Q
+1170%
16.59 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Apr 2021
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
720 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
48
960
Shading Units
6144
48
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
129.6 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
259.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.59 TFLOPS
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.59 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
259.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
GA104
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.7
