RTX A5500 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated79
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.73
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA103SGA103
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date25 January 2022 (2 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores74247424
Core clock speed585 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistorsno data22,000 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate261.0348.0
Floating-point processing power16.7 TFLOPS22.27 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs232232
Tensor Cores232232
Ray Tracing Cores5858

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 January 2022 22 March 2022
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 165 Watt

RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q has 106.3% lower power consumption.

RTX A5500 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q and RTX A5500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q is a notebook graphics card while RTX A5500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q
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NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile
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