NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1260MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+743%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Mar 2022
GRID
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
585 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
58
1536
Shading Units
7424
96
TMUs
232
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
80W
300 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA103
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
22 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
496 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
