RTX A5000 vs Quadro DCC

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated36
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.67
ArchitectureKelvin (2001−2003)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNV20 A5GA102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date14 May 2001 (23 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 coresno data8192
Core clock speed200 MHz1170 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistors57 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data230 Watt
Texture fill rate0.8433.9
Floating-point processing powerno data27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs4256
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB24 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed230 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth3.68 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 VGA, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2001 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm

RTX A5000 has an age advantage of 19 years, a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro DCC and RTX A5000. We've got no test results to judge.


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