RTX A500 Embedded vs Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated628
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.41
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataGA107S
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores162048
Core clock speed1296 MHz435 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1335 MHz
Number of transistorsno data8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rateno data85.44
Floating-point processing powerno data5.468 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 30 March 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 20 Watt

Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU has a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

RTX A500 Embedded, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between M1 Pro 16-Core GPU and RTX A500 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU is a notebook graphics card while RTX A500 Embedded is a mobile workstation one.


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Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU
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