RTX A5500: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

RTX A5500 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 57.01% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started RTX A5500 sales 22 March 2022. This is a high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 768.0 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 230 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about RTX A5500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking44
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency16.99of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA102
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

RTX A5500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A5500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10240of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1080 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1665 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors28,300 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)230 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate532.8of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power34.1 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs96of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs320of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores320of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores80of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A5500 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A5500: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A5500. 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

APIs supported by RTX A5500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A5500. 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.

RTX A5500 57.01

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.

RTX A5500 21966

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.

RTX A5500 174913

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.

RTX A5500 147513

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX A5500 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

RTX A5500's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


RTX A5000 104.03
RTX A5500 100
RTX A4500 98.39
Quadro GV100 90.25

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A5500 is Radeon PRO W7700, which is faster by 2% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Community ratings

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