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Benchmarks
Deep Learning AI GPU Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]
Resnet50 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1061
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
2535
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
4127
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
9366
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
7965
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
21479
Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Resnet50 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
372
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
1144
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1388
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
4273
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
3299
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
9752
Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Resnet152 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
430
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
1027
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1673
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
3795
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
3391
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
8865
Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Resnet152 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
143
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
441
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
533
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
1646
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1387
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
3941
Resnet152 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Inception V3 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
640
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
1529
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
2490
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
5650
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
5525
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
11305
Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Inception V3 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
235
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
724
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
877
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
2703
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
2343
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
6514
Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Inception V4 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
296
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
707
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1151
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
2612
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
4871
Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Inception V4 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
105
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
322
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
392
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
1202
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
2977
Inception V4 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
VGG16 (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
378
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
904
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1470
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
3341
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
11363
VGG16 (FP16 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
VGG16 (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
214
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
658
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
798
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
2458
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
5803
VGG16 (FP32 XLA)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Googlenet (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
2138
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
7751
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
15728
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Googlenet (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1080
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
3866
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
7225
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
(copy)
3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]
V-Ray
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
2265
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Octane
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
699
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Redshift
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
3.06
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Blender
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
4739.82
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
3935.71
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Luxmark
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
73789
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Unreal Engine
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
36.7
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2025 [Updated]
Total run time
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
167.7
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
53.6
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
43.2
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
BERT LARGE Training, Inference Benchmark 2025 [Updated]
Training Time (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1.11
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
0.6
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Performance (FP16)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
51.17
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
106.77
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Training Time (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
1.36
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
0.57
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Performance (FP32)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
40.44
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
118.1
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
LLM Inference Benchmark 2025 [Updated]
Llama3.1 70B
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
0.4
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
27.3
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
15.4
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
27.4
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
15.8
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Llama3.1 405B
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-20b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b (FP4)
1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
8 GPU
NVIDIA RTX A5000
n/a
NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe)
n/a
Technical Specifications
Board Design
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 267 mm | 267 mm |
| Outputs | 4x DisplayPort | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 8-pin EPS |
| Slot width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 230 W | 250 W |
Clock Speeds
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1695 MHz | 1410 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1170 MHz | 1065 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 16000 MHz | 3200 MHz |
Graphics Card
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | Quadro (Ax000) | Tesla (Axx) |
Graphics Features
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.0 |
Graphics Processor
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere |
| Die Size | 628 mm2 | 826 mm2 |
| GPU Name | GA102 | GA100 |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | 28300 million | 54200 million |
Memory
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 768 GB/s | 2039 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 384 bit | 5120 bit |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 80 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | HBM2e |
Render Config
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 96 | 160 |
| RT Cores | 64 | |
| Shading Units/ CUDA Cores | 8192 | 6912 |
| TMUs | 256 | 432 |
| Tensor Cores | 256 | 432 |
Theoretical Performance
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 27.77 TFLOPS | 77.97 TFLOPS |
| FP32 (float) performance | 27.77 TFLOPS | 19.49 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 867.8 GFLOPS | 9746 GFLOPS |
| Pixel Rate | 162.7 GPixel/s | 225.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 433.9 GTexel/s | 609.1 GTexel/s |
Price
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| MSRP | 2299 $ | $ |
| Release Date | Apr 12th, 2021 | Jun 28th, 2021 |
Test bench configuration
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | BIZON X5000 More details | BIZON X5000 More details |
| Software | 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: 461.40 VRay Benchmark: 5 Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5 Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo Blender: 2.90 Luxmark: 3.1 | 3D Rendering: Nvidia Driver: 461.09 VRay Benchmark: 5 Octane Benchmark: 2020.1.5 Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.28 Demo Blender: 2.90 Luxmark: 3.1 |
Recommended hardware
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | NVIDIA A100 80 GB (PCIe) | |
|---|---|---|
| Best GPU workstations | BIZON X5500 | BIZON X5500 |
| Best NVIDIA GPU servers | BIZON X7000 | BIZON X7000 |