RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation vs RTX A2000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking207not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency18.82no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA106AD103
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores25609728
Core clock speed893 MHz1425 MHz
Boost clock speed1358 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors13,250 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate108.6643.0
Floating-point processing power6.953 TFLOPS41.15 TFLOPS
ROPs48112
TMUs80304
Tensor Cores80304
Ray Tracing Cores2076

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

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 amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s576.0 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 Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2021 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 120 Watt

RTX A2000 Mobile has 26.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX A2000 Mobile and RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
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