RTX A5000-12Q vs RTX A5000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking95not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency19.42no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA104GA102
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date12 April 2021 (3 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 cores61448192
Core clock speed900 MHz1170 MHz
Boost clock speed1575 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt230 Watt
Texture fill rate302.4433.9
Floating-point processing power19.35 TFLOPS27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs192256
Tensor Cores192256
Ray Tracing Cores4864

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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

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 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s768.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 230 Watt

RTX A5000 Mobile has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 53.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5000 Mobile and RTX A5000-12Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A5000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while RTX A5000-12Q is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX A5000 Mobile
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