Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile vs HD Graphics 500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1146not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency9.17no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameApollo Lake GT1AD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores962560
Core clock speed200 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed650 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors189 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate7.800162.0
Floating-point processing power0.1248 TFLOPS10.37 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs1280
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceRing BusPCIe 4.0 x8
WidthIGPno data

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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 35 Watt

HD Graphics 500 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 250% lower power consumption.

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 500 and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 500 is a desktop card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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