AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD 2012-06
G

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q

NVIDIA 2022-03

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Mar 2022
Generation
FirePro
Ampere-MW
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
585 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1260 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
448.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
7424
TMUs
112
232
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
58
Tensor Cores
-
232
RT Cores
-
58

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
121.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
292.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
18.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
292.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
18.71 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GA103
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
22 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
496 mm²

Board Design

TDP
225W
80W
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None

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
6.8
CUDA
-
8.6