RTX A5500 vs Radeon E9172 MXM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated42
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.36
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameLexaGA102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date3 October 2017 (7 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 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 cores51210240
Core clock speed1124 MHz1080 MHz
Boost clock speed1219 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate39.01532.8
Floating-point processing power1.248 TFLOPS34.1 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs32320
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s768.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 October 2017 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 230 Watt

E9172 MXM has 557.1% lower power consumption.

RTX A5500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E9172 MXM and RTX A5500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon E9172 MXM is a notebook card while RTX A5500 is a workstation one.


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