NVIDIA DRIVE A100 PROD vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Mar 2022
Generation
DRIVE
Ampere-MW
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
585 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1260 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
32GB
16GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Memory Bus
6144bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.87TB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
58
Shading Units
6912
7424
TMUs
432
232
ROPs
192
96
Tensor Cores
432
232
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
32 MB
4 MB
RT Cores
-
58
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
241.9 GPixel/s
121.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
544.3 GTexel/s
292.3 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
69.67 TFLOPS
18.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
17.42 TFLOPS
18.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
8.709 TFLOPS
292.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GA103
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
7 nm
8 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
22 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
496 mm²
Board Design
TDP
400W
80W
Suggested PSU
800 W
-
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
8.6
Shader Model
N/A
6.8