NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA RTX A400
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2512MHz vs 1762MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+1040%
30.87 TFLOPS
RTX A400
2.706 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5070
+978%
22544
RTX A400
2091
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5070
+1814%
5896
RTX A400
308
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Apr 2024
GeForce 50
Generation
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1417 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1762 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
6
6144
Shading Units
768
192
TMUs
24
80
ROPs
16
192
Tensor Cores
24
48
RT Cores
6
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.19 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.29 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
2.706 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.706 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.29 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
GA107
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
