RTX A4000 Mobile vs Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated106
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.82
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU104BGA104
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date8 June 2020 (4 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores30725120
Core clock speed1035 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1680 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate296.6268.8
Floating-point processing power9.492 TFLOPS17.2 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs192160
Tensor Cores384160
Ray Tracing Cores4840

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 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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s384.0 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
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2020 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 4.5% lower power consumption.

RTX A4000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh and RTX A4000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh
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NVIDIA RTX A4000 Mobile
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