PNY RTX A5500
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PNY RTX A5500 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PNY RTX A5500 is based on the NVIDIA RTX A5500 and has 10240 texture shaders and 80 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, which has 21760 shaders and 170 execution units.
PNY RTX A5500 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
GA102 GPU Chip GB202-300-A1
Ampere Architecture Blackwell
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 170
10240 Shader 21760
96 Render Output Units 176
320 Texture Units 680
80 Raytracing Cores 170

Memory

The PNY RTX A5500 has 24 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 768 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition can access 32 GB GDDR7 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 1792 GB/s.

24 GB Memory Size 32 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
768 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1792 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 512 bit

Clock Speeds

The PNY RTX A5500 clocks in the base with up to 1.170 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is 2.017 GHz.

1.170 GHz Base Clock 2.017 GHz
1.695 GHz Boost Clock 2.407 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PNY RTX A5500 is 230 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has a TDP of 575 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors.

230 W TDP 575 W
-- TDP (up) 600 W
93 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PNY RTX A5500 has a total of 1 Radial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 65 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PNY RTX A5500.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
-- HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1b
4x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v2.1b
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PNY RTX A5500 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The PNY RTX A5500 is 267 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is 304 mm long, 137 mm high and 40 mm wide.

267 mm Length 304 mm
112 mm Height 137 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 16
No SFF-Ready Yes

Additional data

The PNY RTX A5500 was released in Q1/2022 at a price of 3,600 $.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition was introduced in Q1/2025 at a price of 2,329 $ (Reference).

VCNRTXA5500-PB Part-no --
Q1/2022 Release date Q1/2025
3,600 $ Launch Price 2,329 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

1920x1080 (1080p)

PNY RTX A5500 PNY RTX A5500
24 GB GDDR6
204 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

PNY RTX A5500 PNY RTX A5500
24 GB GDDR6
177705

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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