RTX A500 Mobile vs ATI Mobility 128 M3

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated311
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.06
Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM3GA107S
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 February 2000 (24 years ago)22 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 coresno data2048
Core clock speedno data832 MHz
Boost clock speed105 MHz1537 MHz
Manufacturing process technologyno data8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rateno data98.37
Floating-point processing powerno data6.296 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
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 x16

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed105 MHz1500 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectXDDR12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2000 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 8 MB 4 GB

RTX A500 Mobile has an age advantage of 22 years, and a 51100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Mobility 128 M3 and RTX A500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility 128 M3 is a notebook graphics card while RTX A500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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