NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA RTX A5000

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and a Professional market GPU: 24GB VRAM RTX A5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A5000 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (230W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +28%

35.58 TFLOPS

RTX A5000

27.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 +37%

19888

RTX A5000

14471

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +24%

93

RTX A5000

75

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +14%

154

RTX A5000

135

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +5%

200

RTX A5000

190

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

RTX A5000

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

64

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

8192

328

TMUs

256

112

ROPs

96

328

Tensor Cores

256

82

RT Cores

64

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA102

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

230W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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