RTX A5500 Max-Q vs Quadro 5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking630not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.15no data
Power efficiency2.26no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF100GA103
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date23 February 2011 (13 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,499 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 cores3527424
Core clock speed513 MHz585 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1260 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million22,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)152 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate22.57292.3
Floating-point processing power0.7223 TFLOPS18.71 TFLOPS
ROPs4096
TMUs44232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2.5 GB16 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth120.0 GB/s448.0 GB/s

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 DVI, 2x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 February 2011 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2.5 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 152 Watt 80 Watt

RTX A5500 Max-Q has an age advantage of 11 years, a 540% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 90% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 5000 and RTX A5500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 5000 is a workstation card while RTX A5500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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