NVIDIA RTX A5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A5500 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5500

  • Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 532.8 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
  • Around 74% higher pipelines: 10240 vs 5888
  • Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 230 Watt vs 285 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 52% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
  • Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 174913 vs 167932
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 532.8 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10240 vs 5888
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 230 Watt vs 285 Watt
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 174913 vs 167932

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1080 MHz
  • Around 57% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1125 vs 862
  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26979 vs 21966
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Boost clock speed 2610 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1125 vs 862
PassMark - G3D Mark 26979 vs 21966

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
862
1125
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
21966
26979
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
174913
167932
Name NVIDIA RTX A5500 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
PassMark - G2D Mark 862 1125
PassMark - G3D Mark 21966 26979
Geekbench - OpenCL 174913 167932
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 17857
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 417.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 55.419
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 245.639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2459.317

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A5500 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
Code name GA102 AD104
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 2023
Place in performance rating 33 34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 2610 MHz
Core clock speed 1080 MHz 2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,066 GFLOPS (1:32) 480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 34.10 TFLOPS (1:1) 30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 34.10 TFLOPS 30.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines 10240 5888
Pixel fill rate 159.8 GPixel/s 167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 532.8 GTexel/s 480.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 230 Watt 285 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 35800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 12-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 140 mm, 5.5 inches
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 768.0 GB/s 504.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X