GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs RTX A5500 Max-Q

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated9
Place by popularitynot in top-10012
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data67.39
Power efficiencyno data24.37
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA103AD104
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores74247168
Core clock speed585 MHz1980 MHz
Boost clock speed1260 MHz2475 MHz
Number of transistors22,000 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rate292.3554.4
Floating-point processing power18.71 TFLOPS35.48 TFLOPS
ROPs9680
TMUs232224
Tensor Cores232224
Ray Tracing Cores5856

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount16 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s504.2 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 Dependent1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

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
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 8 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 220 Watt

RTX A5500 Max-Q has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 175% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 SUPER, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5500 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A5500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is a desktop one.


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