AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Nov 2021
Generation
FirePro
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
562 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
—
Shading Units
1792
3328
TMUs
112
104
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
SM Count
—
26
Tensor Cores
—
104
RT Cores
—
26
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
7.987 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA106
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
12 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
276 mm²
Board Design
TDP
225W
70W
Suggested PSU
550 W
250 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
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
6.6
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
5,834
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
2,681
OctaneBench
—
227
Blender
—
1,885
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.