NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1350MHz vs 1176MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)
5504 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+1002%
16.59 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 550X Mobile
1.505 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Apr 2018
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
720 MHz
Base Clock
1100 MHz
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
1176 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
640
192
TMUs
40
96
ROPs
16
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.82 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
47.04 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1.505 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.505 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
94.08 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Polaris 23
-
GPU Variant
Polaris 23 MXT
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
8 nm
Process Size
14 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
