NVIDIA RTX A5500
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 is a graphics card released on March 22, 2022, built on the Ampere architecture. It has 10,240 shading units, 24 GB of GDDR6 memory, a boost clock of 1.67 GHz and a 230 W board power rating. It scores 21,192 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12_2, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.
Depth: 40 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 scores 21,192 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 97.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #81), measured across 58 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 911.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA RTX A5500 averages DirectX 9 256 fps, DirectX 10 147 fps, DirectX 11 188 fps, DirectX 12 80 fps and GPU Compute 12,146 ops/s, across 58 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA RTX A5500 states the PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, up to 24 GB of memory, a core clock of 1080 MHz, DirectX 12_2 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2022-05-04. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Not to be confused with
This page covers the NVIDIA RTX A5500 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA RTX A5500 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 is based on the Ampere architecture and uses the GA102-860-A1 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 has 10,240 shading units, 320 texture mapping units and 112 render output units.
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA RTX A5500. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA RTX A5500.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 runs at a base clock of 1.08 GHz and boosts to 1.67 GHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 is equipped with 24 GB of GDDR6 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 has a board power rating of 230 W and it connects over PCIe 4.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 was released on March 22, 2022 and launched at a price of $3,600.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 supports DirectX 12_2, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 8.6.
Features
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 8.6Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA RTX A5500 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.6) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes | Supported4:4:4: Yes |
| AV1 | Not supported | Supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA RTX A5500: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 2).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA RTX A5500 have?
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 has 24 GB of GDDR6 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA RTX A5500 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 has a board power rating of 230 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA RTX A5500?
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 scores 21,192 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 97.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #81. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 80 fps.
Does the NVIDIA RTX A5500 support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA RTX A5500, although it can decode AV1 in hardware.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA RTX A5500?
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 has CUDA compute capability 8.6.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA RTX A5500 use?
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 connects over PCIe 4.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA RTX A5500 released and how much did it cost at launch?
The NVIDIA RTX A5500 was released on March 22, 2022 and launched at a price of $3,600.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
1 filled value
- Architecture: Ampere (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GA102 -> Ampere. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.
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