NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5962 points

58% significantly better overall score

3755 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

136 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

96 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

81 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

92 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

64 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

61 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

35 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7879 points

485% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1543.63 points

1954.21 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99084 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

84002 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

91343 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

76373 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

67503 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

58378 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

91343 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

73300 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

79119 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

69543 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

600 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1350 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

70 W

14% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

86.4 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

259.20 Gigatexels/s

107% significantly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.29 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

7.99 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

3328

8% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

84% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

81st of 586

129th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs RTX A2000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q beats the RTX A2000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a slightly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q at 80 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q over the RTX A2000.