Quadro RTX 5000 and A2 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 5000

A2

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU104

GA107

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1815 MHz

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1620 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

230 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

348.5

70.80

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

12.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

No outputs

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2