NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2025
Jan 2013
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1740 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2377 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
72GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1.34TB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
110
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Shading Units
14080
1792
TMUs
440
112
ROPs
160
32
Tensor Cores
440
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RT Cores
110
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
96 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
380.3 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1045.9 GTexel/s
103.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.94 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
66.94 TFLOPS
3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1045.9 GFLOPS
828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB202
Tahiti
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
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Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Board Design
TDP
300W
200W
Suggested PSU
700 W
550 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-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
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
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Shader Model
6.9
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.