Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop vs 4500 Ada
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Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
GA104
Nvidia RTX 4500 Ada
AD103
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Nvidia RTX A5000 Mobile 16 GB with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the 2 years and 4 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
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
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX A5000 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
- Shows 90% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 118 vs 62 FPS
- 82% higher maximum theoretical performance (39.6 vs 21.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Achieves 85% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (206K vs 111K)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Has 25% more shading units (7680 vs 6144)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 114 71 62 41 |
188 125 115 89 |
| The Witcher 3 | 132 105 75 43 |
201 170 128 66 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 187 143 102 51 |
274 213 151 83 |
| Far Cry 6 | 100 87 70 39 |
158 139 126 78 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 70 59 44 20 |
132 108 85 45 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 85 79 53 36 |
170 159 122 80 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 66 53 41 25 |
116 97 84 49 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 74 65 39 17 |
148 132 86 43 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 115 105 74 41 |
237 219 169 91 |
| 1080p High | 105 | 180 |
| 1080p Ultra | 85 | 151 |
| 1440p Ultra | 62 | 118 |
| 4K Ultra | 35 | 69 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9295 | 19814 |
| Solar Bay | 40186 | 85186 |
| Port Royal | 5817 | 12733 |
| Fire Strike | 26200 | 48036 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 20653 | 40308 |
| Night Raid | 61009 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 172.7 img/sec | 309.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 103.8 img/sec | 198.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.34 Gpixels/sec | 7.42 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.2 Gpixels/sec | 9.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.61 Gpixels/sec | 12.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.05 Gpixels/sec | 2.02 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 474.4 Gpixels/sec | 1060 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 14218.2 FPS | 31078.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 663 | 1161 |
| DirectX 11 | 138 FPS | 259 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 74 FPS | 90 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6941 Ops/s | 16769 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 6590 | 11193 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 12226 | 20124 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 16682 | 34904 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 30795 | 42820 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 71291 | 149991 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2115 | 3789 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3207 | 4268 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8583 | 13068 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 25256 | 47003 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 149822 | 300643 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop and 4500 AdaGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 12, 2021 | 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 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i9 12900HX or above | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (#38th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#17th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 780-1215 MHz (configurable) | 2070 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1245-1770 MHz (configurable) | 2580 MHz |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 7680 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 240 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 80 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 48 | 60 |
| Tensor Cores | 192 | 240 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 48 | 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 | 120-170 GPixel/s | 206 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 239-340 GTexel/s | 619 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-165 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 | 1750 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | Yes | No |
Memory Bandwidth
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 2 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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