NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, 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

7111 points

19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

136 FPS

175 FPS

39 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

81 FPS

88 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

92 FPS

119 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

61 FPS

65 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7879 points

11018 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1543.63 points

3139.35 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99084 points

124547 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

91343 points

116149 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

67503 points

83390 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

91343 points

122638 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

79119 points

127645 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

600 MHz

735 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1350 MHz

1560 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

Identical

16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

448 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

86.4 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

259.20 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.29 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

131% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

6144

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

Identical

192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

81st of 586

66th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2021 April

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 A4000 comparison

In our benchmarks, the RTX A4000 beats the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the RTX A4000 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 RTX A4000 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the RTX A4000 at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the RTX A4000 is better than the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q.