Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada vs 2000 Ada

We compared two discrete desktop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32 GB with 100 pipelines and 12800 shaders against the 1 year and 6 months older 2000 Ada 16 GB that utilizes 22 pipelines and 2816 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
32 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
8.5
(Bad)
Value Index
24.5
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2000 Ada over RTX 5000 Ada
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
  • 5.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (65.3 vs 12 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 16 GB more video memory
  • Features 312 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 2.9x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (260K vs 89K)
  • Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 576 vs 256 GB/s
  • Has 4.5x more shading units (12800 vs 2816)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
201
141
132
98
-
The Witcher 3
212
184
133
73
-
Counter-Strike 2
292
211
158
86
-
Far Cry 6
165
153
132
81
-
Hogwarts Legacy
139
114
92
51
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
182
176
137
91
-
Ghost of Tsushima
129
106
93
59
-
Cyberpunk 2077
160
143
99
48
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
265
241
188
101
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 194 -
1080p Ultra 163 -
1440p Ultra 129 -
4K Ultra 76 -
Margin of Error High High

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 18364 -
Solar Bay 128428 -
Port Royal 17986 -
Fire Strike 49922 -
Wild Life Extreme 52866 -
Night Raid 139369 -
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 5000 Ada +190%
260099
89677
Background Blur 286.6 img/sec 170.5 img/sec
Face Detection 220.4 img/sec 102.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 9.93 Gpixels/sec 3.25 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 13.7 Gpixels/sec 4.12 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18.9 Gpixels/sec 4.06 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 2.2 Gpixels/sec 1.13 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1580 Gpixels/sec 353.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 41235.6 FPS 12273.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
30950
16935
G2D Mark 1008 1073
DirectX 11 272 FPS 138 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS 71 FPS
GPU Compute 20805 Ops/s 7810 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 229 & 1055 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 5000 Ada +186%
7698.51
2687.32
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 31 & 59 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
24715
15501
GB6 ML Half Precision
36753
27554
GB6 ML Quantized
19649
12117
Image Classification (SP) 9943 6382
Image Segmentation (HP) 19696 16489
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32252 17694
Face Detection (HP) 43098 32453
Pose Estimation (Q) 138689 56937
Text Classification (SP) 2893 3097
Machine Translation (HP) 4064 4324
Object Detection (SP) 12467 7656
Depth Estimation (Q) 50352 29700
Style Transfer (SP) 265482 116441
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada and 2000 Ada

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released August 9, 2023 February 12, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $4000 $649
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename AD102 AD107
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i9 14900K or above - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (10th and 45th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1155 MHz 1620 MHz
Boost Clock 2550 MHz 2130 MHz
Shading Units 12800 2816
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 400 88
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 100 22
Tensor Cores 400 88
Ray-tracing Cores 100 22
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 449 GPixel/s 102 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1020 GTexel/s 187 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 5000 Ada +444%
65.3 TFLOPS
12 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 250 W 70 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 609 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 76 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 124.79 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 32 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 5000 Ada +125%
576 GB/s
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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