Quadro FX 580 vs RTX A5500
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 24GB VRAM RTX A5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 230W)
RTX A5500 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
10208 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
RTX A5500
+47261%
34100
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Mar 2022
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1080 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
80
32
Shading Units
10240
16
TMUs
320
8
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
320
-
RT Cores
80
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
159.8 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
532.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
34.10 TFLOPS
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
34.10 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
532.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
230W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GA102
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
