NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2025
Apr 2021
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Quadro Ampere-M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1740 MHz
720 MHz
Boost Clock
2377 MHz
1350 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
72GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.34TB/s
384.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
110
48
Shading Units
14080
6144
TMUs
440
192
ROPs
160
96
Tensor Cores
440
192
RT Cores
110
48
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
96 MB
4 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
380.3 GPixel/s
129.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
1045.9 GTexel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
66.94 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
66.94 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1045.9 GFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GB202
GA104
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
5 nm
8 nm
Transistors
92.2 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
750 mm²
392 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
80W
Suggested PSU
700 W
-
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.4
1.3
CUDA
12.0
8.6
Shader Model
6.9
6.7