NVIDIA RTX A5000: specs and benchmarks

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RTX A5000
NVIDIA RTX A5000
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  • Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
  • Core clock speed
  • Max video memory 24 GB
  • Memory type GDDR6
  • Memory clock speed 16 Gbps
  • Maximum resolution
Year of release 2021
Performance 59.04

Summary

NVIDIA started RTX A5000 sales 12 April 2021. This is a high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GB/s are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 768.0 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 230 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at

59.04%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about RTX A5000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking16
Value for money3.41
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameGA102
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date12 April 2021 (2 years old)
Current price$2789 of 158889 (A100 PCIe)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

RTX A5000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A5000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8192of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed1695 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors28,300 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)230 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate433.9of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A5000 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A5000: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed16 GB/sof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/sof 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A5000. 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by RTX A5000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.6
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.2
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A5000. 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.

RTX A5000 59.04

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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: 24%

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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%

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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%

RTX A5000 138209

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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Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX A5000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall RTX A5000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A5000 is Radeon Pro W6800, which is slower by 16% and lower by 14 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with RTX A5000 according to our statistics.

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