NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs AMD Radeon RX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX A5000 12Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1695MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 230W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A5000 12Q +2193%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 12Q

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Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1170 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

64

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

8192

Shading Units

512

256

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

256

Tensor Cores

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

162.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

433.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

27.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

27.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

433.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Lexa

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GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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