NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2022
Sep 2014
Generation
Ampere-MW
GeForce 900
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
585 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
58
—
Shading Units
7424
2048
TMUs
232
128
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
232
—
RT Cores
58
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA103
GM204
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
22 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
496 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM204-400-A1
Board Design
TDP
80W
165W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
5.2
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.