NVIDIA Tesla K40c vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Tesla K40c 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 RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1260MHz vs 876MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)
4544 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 245W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla K40c
5.046 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+270%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Mar 2022
Tesla
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
745 MHz
Base Clock
585 MHz
876 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.4GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
58
2880
Shading Units
7424
240
TMUs
232
48
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
52.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
210.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
5.046 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
1.682 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
245W
TDP
80W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK180
GPU Name
GA103
GK180-890-A1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
22 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
496 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.5
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
