NVIDIA A10 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A10 and NVIDIA RTX A5000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A10

  • Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 488.2 GTexel/s vs 433.9 GTexel/s
  • Around 13% higher pipelines: 9216 vs 8192
  • Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 230 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 158308 vs 154729
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 488.2 GTexel/s vs 433.9 GTexel/s
Pipelines 9216 vs 8192
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 230 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 158308 vs 154729

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5000

  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1170 MHz vs 885 MHz
  • Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1032 vs 1007
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 22553 vs 22064
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1170 MHz vs 885 MHz
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1032 vs 1007
PassMark - G3D Mark 22553 vs 22064

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A10
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A5000

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1007
1032
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22064
22553
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
158308
154729
Name NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA RTX A5000
PassMark - G2D Mark 1007 1032
PassMark - G3D Mark 22064 22553
Geekbench - OpenCL 158308 154729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 581.432
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 6836.931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 54.372
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 191.518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2038.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 22508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 22508
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA RTX A5000

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ampere
Code name GA102 GA102
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 12 Apr 2021
Place in performance rating 28 69

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1695 MHz 1695 MHz
Core clock speed 885 MHz 1170 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 976.3 GFLOPS (1:32) 867.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS (1:1) 27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS 27.77 TFLOPS
Pipelines 9216 8192
Pixel fill rate 162.7 GPixel/s 162.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 488.2 GTexel/s 433.9 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 230 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Single-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 112 mm (4.4 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 600.2 GB/s 768 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6