NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 4GB VRAM RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2025MHz vs 1350MHz)
Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+100%
16.59 TFLOPS
RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation
8.294 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Feb 2024
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
720 MHz
Base Clock
1485 MHz
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
2025 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
16
6144
Shading Units
2048
192
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
32
192
Tensor Cores
64
48
RT Cores
16
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
12 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.80 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
129.6 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.294 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.294 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
129.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
35W
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-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
AD107
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-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
18.9 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
159 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
