RTX A4500 Mobile vs FirePro W5000 DVI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated76
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.51
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnGA104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date25 February 2013 (11 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7685888
Core clock speed825 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate39.60276.0
Floating-point processing power1.267 TFLOPS17.66 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs48184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length191 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVIPortable Device Dependent
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2013 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 140 Watt

W5000 DVI has 86.7% lower power consumption.

RTX A4500 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5000 DVI and RTX A4500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W5000 DVI is a workstation card while RTX A4500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro W5000 DVI
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