Quadro RTX 8000 and RTX A5500 Max-Q - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 8000

RTX A5500 Max-Q

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU102

GA103

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

August 2018

March 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

1260 MHz

Core clock speed

1395 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

22,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

7424

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

509.8

292.3

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

448.0 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

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3