RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation vs Quadro P5200 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking166not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.64no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGP104AD103
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date21 February 2018 (6 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores25609728
Core clock speed1316 MHz1425 MHz
Boost clock speed1569 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate251.0643.0
Floating-point processing power8.033 TFLOPS41.15 TFLOPS
ROPs64112
TMUs160304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1804 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth230.9 GB/s576.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA6.18.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 February 2018 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 16 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 120 Watt

P5200 Max-Q has 20% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 220% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P5200 Max-Q and RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q
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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation
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