Product Compare

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2021 Nov 2012
Generation Quadro Ampere Southern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1170 MHz 925 MHz
Boost Clock 1695 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 12GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 768.0GB/s 192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 64
Shading Units 8192 1536
TMUs 256 96
ROPs 96 32
Tensor Cores 256
RT Cores 64
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 6 MB 512 KB
Compute Units 24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 162.7 GPixel/s 31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 433.9 GTexel/s 93.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 27.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 27.77 TFLOPS 2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 433.9 GFLOPS 748.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA102 Tahiti
Architecture Ampere GCN 1.0
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Process Size 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 28.3 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 628 mm² 352 mm²
GPU Variant Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
Board Design
TDP 230W 185W
Suggested PSU 550 W 450 W
Outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 8.6
Shader Model 6.7 5.1