NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation vs NVIDIA RTX A5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation and NVIDIA RTX A5500 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 1080 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 70 Watt vs 230 Watt
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1128 vs 862
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 Mar 2023 vs 22 Mar 2022
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt vs 230 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1128 vs 862

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5500

  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1565 MHz
  • Around 77% higher texture fill rate: 532.8 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 10240 vs 6144
  • Around 20% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 20 GB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 21966 vs 21042
  • Around 42% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 174913 vs 123076
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1665 MHz vs 1565 MHz
Texture fill rate 532.8 GTexel/s vs 300.5 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10240 vs 6144
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 20 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 21966 vs 21042
Geekbench - OpenCL 174913 vs 123076

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A5500

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1128
862
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
21042
21966
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
123076
174913
Name NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation NVIDIA RTX A5500
PassMark - G2D Mark 1128 862
PassMark - G3D Mark 21042 21966
Geekbench - OpenCL 123076 174913

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation NVIDIA RTX A5500

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA102
Launch date 21 Mar 2023 22 Mar 2022
Place in performance rating 31 33

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1565 MHz 1665 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 6144 10240
Pixel fill rate 125.2 GPixel/s 159.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 300.5 GTexel/s 532.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt 230 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,066 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 34.10 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 34.10 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 168 mm, 6.6 inches 267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Width 69 mm, 2.7 inches 112 mm, 4.4 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 20 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 280.0 GB/s 768.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 160 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6