Nvidia RTX A5500 Laptop vs 5000 Laptop (Ada)
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Nvidia RTX A5500 Laptop
GA103
We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX A5500 Mobile with 58 pipelines and 7424 shaders against the 11 months newer 5000 Mobile (Ada) that utilizes 76 pipelines and 9728 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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
- Performs significantly better (up to 84%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 67% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 100 vs 60 FPS
- 72% higher maximum theoretical performance (42.6 vs 24.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
- Features 72 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 31% more shading units (9728 vs 7424)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 111 68 60 38 |
163 108 97 70 |
| The Witcher 3 | 123 100 75 40 |
184 155 108 57 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 182 138 97 49 |
267 202 145 82 |
| Far Cry 6 | 94 84 68 37 |
140 130 109 64 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 70 55 42 19 |
110 92 73 37 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 84 73 53 33 |
142 133 98 65 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 63 50 37 20 |
99 83 67 39 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 69 65 37 17 |
123 109 69 31 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 111 100 73 40 |
187 178 132 72 |
| 1080p High | 101 | 157 |
| 1080p Ultra | 81 | 132 |
| 1440p Ultra | 60 | 100 |
| 4K Ultra | 33 | 57 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 8914 | 15858 |
| Solar Bay | 31554 | 63693 |
| Port Royal | 5890 | 9606 |
| Fire Strike | 24599 | 38278 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 16879 | 32627 |
| Night Raid | 27155 | 70978 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 222.1 img/sec | 224.2 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 132.2 img/sec | 156 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.83 Gpixels/sec | 6.84 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 9.64 Gpixels/sec | 9.15 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.81 Gpixels/sec | 10.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.27 Gpixels/sec | 1.48 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 615.9 Gpixels/sec | 882.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 18134.8 FPS | 23725.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 727 | 756 |
| DirectX 11 | 131 FPS | 231 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 85 FPS | 99 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7491 Ops/s | 9393 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) | 6982 | 9400 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 15050 | 17325 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 14412 | 30156 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 27475 | 42321 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 66491 | 140618 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2852 | 3278 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3306 | 3691 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8121 | 12106 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 24442 | 43574 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 156421 | 283979 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A5500 Laptop and 5000 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 30, 2022 | March 21, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GA103 | AD103 |
| Successor | - Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada) | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i9 12900HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (29th and 8th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Boost Clock | 1050-1663 MHz (configurable) | 1460-2190 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 7424 | 9728 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 232 | 304 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 58 | 76 |
| Tensor Cores | 232 | 304 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 58 | 76 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 64MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 101-160 GPixel/s | 164-245 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 244-386 GTexel/s | 444-666 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-165 W (configurable) | 80-175 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 496 mm² | 379 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 22 billion | 45.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 44.35 MTr/mm² | 121.11 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | Yes | Yes |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12.2 |
| 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 | 1.4 | 1.4a |
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