NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI60
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI60 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 3 years and 4 months late
3328 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1800MHz vs 1260MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1024GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5500 Max Q
+26%
18.71 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI60
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Nov 2018
Ampere-MW
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
585 MHz
Base Clock
1200 MHz
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
1800 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1024GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
58
SM Count
-
7424
Shading Units
4096
232
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
64
232
Tensor Cores
-
58
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
121.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
292.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
460.8 GTexel/s
18.71 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
18.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
292.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
7.373 TFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
300W
-
Suggested PSU
700 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA103
GPU Name
Vega 20
-
GPU Variant
Vega 20 GL
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 5.1
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
22 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
496 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
