GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD FirePro W8000

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

RTX A6000

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 48 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1800 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

24,518

180,149

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

165,451

passmark_directx_10

N/A

155

passmark_directx_11

N/A

191

passmark_directx_12

N/A

87

passmark_directx_9

N/A

245

passmark_g2d

N/A

913

passmark_g3d

N/A

22,577

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,110

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

FirePro W8000

RTX A6000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,792

10,752 +500.0%

Shaders

1,792

10,752 +500.0%

TMUs

112

336 +200.0%

ROPs

32

112 +250.0%

Compute Units

28

—

SM Count

—

84

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1800 MHz

GPU Clock

900 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

48 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

49,152 +1100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

201.6 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.226 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)

604.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

38.71 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

84

Tensor Cores

—

336

Power

TDP

225 W

300 W

TDP (W)

225

300 +33.3%

Suggested PSU

550 W

700 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA102

Generation

FirePro GCN (Wx000)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

28,300 million

Die Size

352 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

12.3M / mm²

45.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

279 mm 11 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

1,599 USD

4,649 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro Terascale

Quadro Turing

Successor

Radeon Pro Polaris

Workstation Ada

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