RTX A5500 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking71not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.06no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA104GA103
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores56327424
Core clock speed915 MHz585 MHz
Boost clock speed1410 MHz1260 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million22,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate248.2292.3
Floating-point processing power15.88 TFLOPS18.71 TFLOPS
ROPs8096
TMUs176232
Tensor Cores176232
Ray Tracing Cores4458

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s448.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 80 Watt

RTX A5500 Max-Q has an age advantage of 2 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 43.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile and RTX A5500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile is a notebook graphics card while RTX A5500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile
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