RTX A4500: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
RTX A4500 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 56.09% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started RTX A4500 sales 23 November 2021. This is a high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 20 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 640.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about RTX A4500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 45 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 19.55 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA102 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 23 November 2021 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
RTX A4500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A4500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 7168 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1050 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1650 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 28,300 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 200 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 369.6 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 23.65 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 96 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 224 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 224 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 56 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A4500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on RTX A4500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 20 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 640.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A4500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a |
API compatibility
APIs supported by RTX A4500, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A4500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A4500 is Radeon Pro W6800, which is slower by 9% and lower by 7 positions in our ranking.
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