Quadro RTX 5000 and RTX A5000 Max-Q - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 5000

RTX A5000 Max-Q

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU104

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

August 2018

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1815 MHz

1350 MHz

Core clock speed

1620 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

13,600 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

230 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

348.5

259.2

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

384.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3