RTX A500: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
RTX A500 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 17.55% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started RTX A500 sales 10 November 2021. This is an Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 112.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 60 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about RTX A500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 308 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 20.39 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA107 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 10 November 2021 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
RTX A500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1440 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1770 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 60 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 113.3 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 7.25 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 64 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 16 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A500 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 x8 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on RTX A500: 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 | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1750 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 112.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A500. 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 | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by RTX A500, 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 A500. 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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A500 is Radeon Pro 5300, which is faster by 6% and higher by 13 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to RTX A500:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with RTX A500 according to our statistics.
