AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX A5000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2013
Apr 2021
Generation
Sea Islands
Quadro Ampere
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
950 MHz
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1695 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
8192
TMUs
128
256
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
SM Count
—
64
Tensor Cores
—
256
RT Cores
—
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
433.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Malta
GA102
GPU Variant
Malta XT(215-0849026)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
365 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
375W
230W
Suggested PSU
750 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.