RTX A4500: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 56.14% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started RTX A4500 sales 23 November 2021. This is a high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 20 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GB/s are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 640.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about RTX A4500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 34 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 2.56 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | GA102 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 23 November 2021 (2 years ago) | |
| Current price | $2591 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
RTX A4500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A4500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 7168 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1650 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 28,300 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 200 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 369.6 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A4500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on RTX A4500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 20 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 16 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 640.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A4500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a |
API support
APIs supported by RTX A4500, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A4500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A4500 is Radeon PRO W7700, which is slower by 5% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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