NVIDIA RTX A5500 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A5500 and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB 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.

NVIDIA RTX A5500

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Around 48% higher pipelines: 10240 vs 6912
Around 74% lower typical power consumption: 230 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 16 Nov 2020
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines	10240 vs 6912
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	230 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1095 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
3.3x more maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 24 GB
Around 17% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204456 vs 174637

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1095 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 532.8 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size	80 GB vs 24 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	204456 vs 174637

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

174637

204456

Name	NVIDIA RTX A5500	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	918
PassMark - G3D Mark	21872
Geekbench - OpenCL	174637	204456

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A5500	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere
Code name	GA102	GA100
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	16 Nov 2020
Place in performance rating	29	26
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1080 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,066 GFLOPS (1:32)	9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	34.10 TFLOPS (1:1)	77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	34.10 TFLOPS	19.49 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10240	6912
Pixel fill rate	159.8 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	532.8 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	230 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million	54200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Width	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	80 GB
Memory bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	2039 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1593 MHz (3.2 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)