RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation vs Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU104BAD103
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date8 June 2020 (4 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 cores30729728
Core clock speed1035 MHz1425 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz2115 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate296.6643.0
Floating-point processing power9.492 TFLOPS41.15 TFLOPS
ROPs64112
TMUs192304
Tensor Cores384304
Ray Tracing Cores4876

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16

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 speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 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 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2020 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has 9.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

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


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh
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