RTX A5000-12Q vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking34not rated
Place by popularity14not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation83.19no data
Power efficiency25.43no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD106GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 May 2023 (1 year ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores43528192
Core clock speed2310 MHz1170 MHz
Boost clock speed2535 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors22,900 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate344.8433.9
Floating-point processing power22.06 TFLOPS27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs4896
TMUs136256
Tensor Cores136256
Ray Tracing Cores3464

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length240 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin1x 8-pin

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 amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s768.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 May 2023 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 230 Watt

RTX 4060 Ti has an age advantage of 2 years, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 43.8% lower power consumption.

RTX A5000-12Q, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and RTX A5000-12Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a desktop card while RTX A5000-12Q is a workstation one.


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