24GB · AI Score 7.6/100 · anchored estimate vs 51 measured cards
7.6 AI Score Includes estimates
We have not run NVIDIA RTX A5500 on our bench. These figures are anchored estimates, interpolated per workload against the 51 GPUs we did measure. On Llama 3.1 8B (Q4_K_M) NVIDIA RTX A5500 should deliver about 127.6 tokens/sec. Stepping up to Qwen3 32B it should hold roughly 30.5 tok/s. Llama 3.3 70B does not fit. It needs roughly 42GB and this card has 24GB. For image generation, SDXL should run near 3.06 it/s, while FLUX.1-dev won't fit at BF16 (needs ~26GB). 4 of the 12 workloads won't fit on 24GB at the tested precision, Llama 3.3 70B, FLUX.1-dev, FLUX.1 Kontext, Qwen-Image-Edit. We publish those as hard gates rather than quietly dropping to a smaller quant.
| Workload | Result | Telemetry | Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 4B | 187.5 tok/s | estimated | Est. |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 127.6 tok/s | estimated | Est. |
| Qwen2.5-Coder 14B | 69.9 tok/s | estimated | Est. |
| Qwen3 32B | 30.5 tok/s | estimated | Est. |
| Llama 3.3 70B | ✕ Won't fit | VRAM-gated at this precision | Est. |
| Workload | Result | Telemetry | Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stable Diffusion XL | 6.12 images/min | estimated | Est. |
| Z-Image Turbo | 5.33 images/min | estimated | Est. |
| FLUX.1 dev | ✕ Won't fit | VRAM-gated at this precision | Est. |
| Workload | Result | Telemetry | Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLUX.1 Kontext dev | ✕ Won't fit | VRAM-gated at this precision | Est. |
| Qwen-Image-Edit | ✕ Won't fit | VRAM-gated at this precision | Est. |
| Workload | Result | Telemetry | Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| LTX-Video (distilled) | 2.38 frames/s | estimated | Est. |
| Wan 2.2 5B (720p) | 0.29 frames/s | estimated | Est. |
| Architecture | Ampere |
| CUDA cores | 10,240 |
| VRAM | 24GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 768 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,665 MHz |
| TDP | 230 W |
| Process | 8nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2022-03-22 |
| Launch MSRP | $3,600 |
NVIDIA RTX A5500 scores 7.6/100, #34 of 102. It ran 8 of 12; 4 exceeded its 24GB. Figures are anchored estimates, not measurements, we flag that on every row.
100% = this card, AI & Machine Learning headline metric (AI Score). #8 of 20 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | AI Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | 276% | 21 | |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell | 170% | 12.9 | |
| AMD Radeon Pro W7900 | 168% | 12.8 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 | 108% | 8.2 | |
| NVIDIA RTX A5500 | 100% | 7.6 | |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell | 100% | 7.6 | |
| NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 (Turing) | 97% | 7.4 | |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | 97% | 7.4 | |
| AMD Radeon Pro W7800 | 82% | 6.2 |
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Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
| Workflow | Time | Energy | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24-frame storyboard | 5.3 min | n/a | estimate, 0 of 2 stages measured |
| 60-second AI short film | 13.1 min | n/a | estimate, 0 of 3 stages measured |
| Full codebase review | 14.3 min | n/a | estimate, 0 of 1 stage measured |
| 10 short social clips | 30.3 min | n/a | estimate, 0 of 3 stages measured |
Can't run: 40-product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 6-panel comic page (needs FLUX.1 dev), 20 long-form articles (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), 100-photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 100-photo restore and enlarge (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev).