RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded vs RTX A5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking43not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency17.14no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA102AD103
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores102409728
Core clock speed1080 MHz1425 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate532.8643.0
Floating-point processing power34.1 TFLOPS41.15 TFLOPS
ROPs96112
TMUs320304
Tensor Cores320304
Ray Tracing Cores8076

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 amount24 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s576.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable 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
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 120 Watt

RTX A5500 has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 91.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5500 and RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A5500 is a workstation card while RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded is a notebook one.


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