RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation vs RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking31not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency19.43no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512AD103
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date12 October 2022 (2 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 cores40969728
Core clock speed930 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1680 MHz1680 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data510.7
Floating-point processing powerno data32.69 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data304
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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 speed20000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 October 2022 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation has an age advantage of 5 months, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 87.5% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile is a notebook graphics card while RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile
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