RTX A5500 vs Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated43
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.26
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF100GA102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date12 June 2011 (13 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 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 cores25610240
Core clock speed475 MHz1080 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)142 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate15.20532.8
Floating-point processing power0.4864 TFLOPS34.1 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs32320
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 8-pin

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 amount1792 MB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed702 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth89.86 GB/s768.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 June 2011 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1792 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 142 Watt 230 Watt

4000 Mac Edition has 62% lower power consumption.

RTX A5500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1271.4% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 4000 Mac Edition and RTX A5500. We've got no test results to judge.


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