Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile 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)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP108Lucienne
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date5 January 2018 (6 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 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 cores256512
Core clock speed1455 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1518 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors1,800 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate24.2960.80
Floating-point processing power0.7772 TFLOPS1.946 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs1632

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 x16IGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1253 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth40.1 GB/sno data
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2018 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 25 Watt

Quadro P500 has 38.9% lower power consumption.

Graphics 512SP Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P500 and Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P500 is a mobile workstation card while Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P500
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AMD Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile
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