NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 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: Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1536
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 vs 4 Aug 2020
Pipelines 2048 vs 1536

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

  • Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 832 MHz
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 1537 MHz
  • Around 71% higher texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 98.37 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1187 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed 1757 MHz vs 1537 MHz
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s vs 98.37 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 41707 vs 41523

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
41523
41707
Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
Geekbench - OpenCL 41523 41707

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA 1.0
Code name GA107S Navi 14
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 4 Aug 2020
Place in performance rating 520 521
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1537 MHz 1757 MHz
Core clock speed 832 MHz 1187 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 98.37 GFLOPS (1:64) 337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.296 TFLOPS (1:1) 10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 6.296 TFLOPS 5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 1536
Pixel fill rate 73.78 GPixel/s 56.22 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 98.37 GTexel/s 168.7 GTexel/s
Compute units 24
Render output units 32
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None None
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Width IGP

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 96.00 GB/s 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6