Quadro RTX 5000 and RTX A40 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 5000

RTX A40

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU104

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1815 MHz

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

1620 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

230 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

348.5

589.7

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

3x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2