NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages
Released 21 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
8192 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Oct 1999
Quadro Ampere
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1170 MHz
Base Clock
-
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
768.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
64
SM Count
-
8192
Shading Units
-
256
TMUs
4
96
ROPs
4
256
Tensor Cores
-
64
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
162.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
27.77 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
27.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
433.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
230W
TDP
Unknown
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Celsius
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
220 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
-
