T500 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking11not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.26no data
Power efficiency11.84no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA102TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date27 January 2022 (2 years ago)2 December 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores10752896
Core clock speed1560 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1860 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)450 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate625.079.80
Floating-point processing power40 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs11232
TMUs33656
Tensor Cores336no data
Ray Tracing Cores84no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length336 mmno data
Width3-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,008 GB/s80 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.67.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 January 2022 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 450 Watt 18 Watt

RTX 3090 Ti has an age advantage of 1 year, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 2400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is a desktop card while T500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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