NVIDIA RTX A5500: specs and benchmarks

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NVIDIA RTX A5500
NVIDIA RTX A5500
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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 2022
Performance 48.51

Summary

NVIDIA started RTX A5500 sales 22 March 2022. This is an Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 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

48.51%

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

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General info

Some basic facts about RTX A5500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rating30
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameGA102
Market segmentDesktop
Release date22 March 2022 (1 year old)
Current price$5161 of 49999 (A100 SXM4)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

RTX A5500's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A5500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10240of 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 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)230 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate542.4of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on RTX A5500's 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).

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

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A5500: 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 A5500. 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 1.4a

API support

APIs supported by RTX A5500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.6
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A5500. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.


Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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 A5500 48.51
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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%

RTX A5500 19240

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX A5500 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

RTX A5500's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest equivalent to RTX A5500 by AMD is Radeon RX 6700, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our rating.

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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 A5500 according to our statistics.

User rating

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