NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB and AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 26% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 950 MHz
59.2x more texture fill rate: 124.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 106.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
5.4x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 375 Watt

Launch date	23 Nov 2021 vs 1 March 2014
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 950 MHz
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 106.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt vs 375 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Around 47% higher core clock speed: 825 MHz vs 562 MHz
Around 8% higher pipelines: 2x 1792 vs 3328
3.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	825 MHz vs 562 MHz
Pipelines	2x 1792 vs 3328
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB
GPU 2: AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Name	NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB	AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1110
PassMark - G3D Mark	13725
Geekbench - OpenCL	72896
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5815
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	207.704
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3385.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	22.913
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	240.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1030.098

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB	AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA106	Tahiti
Launch date	23 Nov 2021	1 March 2014
Place in performance rating	114	not rated
Launch price (MSRP)		$3,599
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	950 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	124.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3328	2x 1792
Pixel fill rate	57.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s	2x 106.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	375 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2x 3,405 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	167 mm, 6.6 inches	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Width	69 mm, 2.7 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2x 6 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	2x 240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5