RTX A5000 Max-Q vs RTX A5500 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking77not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency18.87no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA103GA104
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores74246144
Core clock speed975 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1350 MHz
Number of transistors22,000 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate348.0259.2
Floating-point processing power22.27 TFLOPS16.59 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs232192
Tensor Cores232192
Ray Tracing Cores5848

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s384.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 12 April 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 80 Watt

RTX A5500 Mobile has an age advantage of 11 months.

RTX A5000 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 106.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5500 Mobile and RTX A5000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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