A100 SXM4 vs RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking31not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency19.10no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512GA100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date12 October 2022 (2 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 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 cores40966912
Core clock speed930 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed1680 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rateno data609.1
Floating-point processing powerno data19.49 TFLOPS
ROPsno data160
TMUsno data432
Tensor Coresno data432

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR6HBM2E
Maximum RAM amount16 GB40 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed20000 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,555 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.140
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2022 14 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 400 Watt

RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 77.8% lower power consumption.

A100 SXM4, on the other hand, has a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile and A100 SXM4. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile is a notebook card while A100 SXM4 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile
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