Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop vs 4500 Ada

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Nvidia RTX A4500 Mobile 16 GB with 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months newer 4500 Ada 24 GB that utilizes 60 pipelines and 7680 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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4500 Ada over RTX A4500 Mobile
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop
  • Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.3x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (39.6 vs 17.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 90% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 118 vs 62 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Achieves 73% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (206K vs 119K)
  • Features 56 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 30% more shading units (7680 vs 5888)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
116
73
60
41
188
125
115
89
The Witcher 3
131
104
74
40
201
170
128
66
Counter-Strike 2
190
141
103
50
274
213
151
83
Far Cry 6
98
89
70
37
158
139
126
78
Hogwarts Legacy
70
57
43
24
132
108
85
45
CoD: Modern Warfare III
86
77
55
36
170
159
122
80
Ghost of Tsushima
69
53
37
21
116
97
84
49
Cyberpunk 2077
72
68
39
17
148
132
86
43
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
116
104
75
38
237
219
169
91
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 105 180
1080p Ultra 85 151
1440p Ultra 62 118
4K Ultra 34 69
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
RTX 4500 Ada +133%
21566
Time Spy 9411 19814
Solar Bay 39802 85186
Port Royal 5881 12733
Fire Strike 25127 48036
Wild Life Extreme 19741 40308
Night Raid 65181 -
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
206673
Background Blur 158.7 img/sec 309.9 img/sec
Face Detection 115.8 img/sec 198.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.95 Gpixels/sec 7.42 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.2 Gpixels/sec 9.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.85 Gpixels/sec 12.4 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.13 Gpixels/sec 2.02 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 505.2 Gpixels/sec 1060 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15517.5 FPS 31078.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
28026
G2D Mark 706 1161
DirectX 11 132 FPS 259 FPS
DirectX 12 76 FPS 90 FPS
GPU Compute 6636 Ops/s 16769 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 457 & 169 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4500 Ada +106%
5583.37
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 54 & 23 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
26396
GB6 ML Half Precision
40553
GB6 ML Quantized
20133
Image Classification (SP) 6159 11193
Image Segmentation (HP) 12031 20124
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15490 34904
Face Detection (HP) 29614 42820
Pose Estimation (Q) 65582 149991
Text Classification (SP) 1918 3789
Machine Translation (HP) 3097 4268
Object Detection (SP) 8192 13068
Depth Estimation (Q) 23635 47003
Style Transfer (SP) 142647 300643
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A4500 Laptop and 4500 Ada

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 22, 2022 August 23, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) - $2250
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GA104 AD103
Successor - Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada) -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12800HX or above - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#29th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#17th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 510-1035 MHz (configurable) 2070 MHz
Boost Clock 1035-1485 MHz (configurable) 2580 MHz
Shading Units 5888 7680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 240
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 60
Tensor Cores 184 240
Ray-tracing Cores 46 60
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 48MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 99-143 GPixel/s 206 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 190-273 GTexel/s 619 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
12.2-17.5 TFLOPS
RTX 4500 Ada +126%
39.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 80-140 W (configurable) 210 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Die Size 392 mm² 379 mm²
Transistor Count 17.4 billion 45 billion
Transistor Density 44.39 MTr/mm² 118.73 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 24 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC Yes No
Memory Bandwidth
512 GB/s
432 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.6 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS - DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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