NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
Oct 2025
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Blackwell PRO W
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1170 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
2377 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
72GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR7
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
1.34TB/s
Render Config
SM Count
64
110
Shading Units
8192
14080
TMUs
256
440
ROPs
96
160
Tensor Cores
256
440
RT Cores
64
110
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
380.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
1045.9 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
66.94 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
66.94 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
1045.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GB202
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
230W
300W
Suggested PSU
550 W
700 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
8.6
12.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.9