RTX A5500: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

RTX A5500 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 47.60% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 designers. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 768.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking70
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency16.67of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameGA102
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date22 March 2022 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

RTX A5500's specs 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 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1080 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1665 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors28,300 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)230 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate532.8of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power34.1 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs96of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs320of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Tensor Cores320of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores80of 188 (RTX PRO 6000)
L1 Cache10 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache6 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A5500 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

VRAM capacity and type

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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Resizable BAR+

Connectivity and outputs

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 and SDK support

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.6
DLSS+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A5500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RTX A5500
47.60

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

RTX A5500 21048
Samples: 50

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.

RTX A5500 174637

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.

RTX A5500 147513

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.

Closest competitors

RTX A5500's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


L40 106.74
RTX A4500 100.34
RTX A5500 100
L40S 95.13

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A5500 is Radeon Pro W6800, which is slower by 4% and lower by 8 positions in our ranking.

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