GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs RTX A5500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking44not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10079
Power efficiency16.99no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA102GA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)17 December 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 cores102402048
Core clock speed1080 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate532.873.92
Floating-point processing power34.1 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs32064
Tensor Cores32064
Ray Tracing Cores8032

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 3.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 amount24 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth768.0 GB/s96 GB/s

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x 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
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 230 Watt 30 Watt

RTX A5500 has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 2050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 666.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5500 and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A5500 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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