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