GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB vs Quadro P500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking683not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency16.11no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGP108GP107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date5 January 2018 (6 years ago)1 February 2019 (5 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 cores256768
Core clock speed1455 MHz1366 MHz
Boost clock speed1518 MHz1442 MHz
Number of transistors1,800 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate24.2969.22
Floating-point processing power0.7772 TFLOPS2.215 TFLOPS
ROPs1624
TMUs1648

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB3 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth40.1 GB/s84.1 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA6.16.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2018 1 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 75 Watt

Quadro P500 has 316.7% lower power consumption.

GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P500 and GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P500 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P500
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