RTX A4500 Mobile vs Quadro RTX 5000

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking86not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation17.72no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2021)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameTU104GA104
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 August 2018 (5 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,299 no data
Current price$1540 (0.7x MSRP)no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30725888
Core clock speed1620 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1815 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt140 Watt (80 - 140 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate348.5223.6

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Quadro RTX 5000 and RTX A4500 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 30 March 2022
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 140 Watt

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 and RTX A4500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 is a workstation card while RTX A4500 Mobile is a notebook one.


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