NVIDIA GRID A100A vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1260MHz vs 1005MHz)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 400W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID A100A
13.89 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+34%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2020
Release Date
Mar 2022
GRID
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
585 MHz
1005 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
6144bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1866GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
108
SM Count
58
6912
Shading Units
7424
432
TMUs
232
192
ROPs
96
432
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
193.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
434.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
55.57 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
13.89 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
6.947 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
400W
TDP
80W
800 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
GA103
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
7 nm
Process Size
8 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
22 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
496 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
8.0
CUDA
8.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.8
