NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA RTX A5000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 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 RTX 5000 Ada Generation

  • Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1695 MHz
  • Around 88% higher pipelines: 15360 vs 8192
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 24 GB
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
  • Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 23859 vs 22844
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 2505 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Pipelines 15360 vs 8192
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 24 GB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 23859 vs 22844

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5000

  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1170 MHz vs 915 MHz
  • 361x more texture fill rate: 433.9 GTexel/s vs 1,202 GTexel/s
  • Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 230 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1042 vs 705
  • Around 32% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 154511 vs 116929
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1170 MHz vs 915 MHz
Texture fill rate 433.9 GTexel/s vs 1,202 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 230 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1042 vs 705
Geekbench - OpenCL 154511 vs 116929

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A5000

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
705
1042
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
23859
22844
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
116929
154511
Name NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation NVIDIA RTX A5000
PassMark - G2D Mark 705 1042
PassMark - G3D Mark 23859 22844
Geekbench - OpenCL 116929 154511
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 RTX 5000 Ada Generation NVIDIA RTX A5000

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD102 GA102
Place in performance rating 50 71
Launch date 12 Apr 2021

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2505 MHz 1695 MHz
Core clock speed 915 MHz 1170 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 15360 8192
Pixel fill rate 440.9 GPixel/s 162.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 1,202 GTexel/s 433.9 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 230 Watt
Transistor count 76300 million 28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 867.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 27.77 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort

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 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-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 32 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 960.0 GB/s 768 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6