RTX A5500 vs RTX A5000

Place in performance ranking	29	36
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	3.71	2.62
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2022)	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	GA102	GA102
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	12 April 2021 (3 years ago)	22 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Current price	$3327	$3965

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX A5000 has 42% better value for money than RTX A5500.

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 cores	8192	10240
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1665 MHz
Number of transistors	28,300 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	230 Watt	230 Watt
Texture fill rate	433.9	532.8

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin

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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	16 GB/s	16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	768.0 GB/s

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 Connectors

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API Compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
CUDA	8.6	8.6

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. 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 59.02
+6.3%

RTX A5500 55.52

RTX A5000 outperforms RTX A5500 by 6% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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%

RTX A5000 22848
+6.3%

RTX A5500 21494

RTX A5000 outperforms RTX A5500 by 6% in Passmark.

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%

RTX A5000 154601

RTX A5500 177067
+14.5%

RTX A5500 outperforms RTX A5000 by 15% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.