Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU vs Quadro T500 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking483not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency34.32no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)no data
GPU code nameTU117no data
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date2 December 2020 (4 years ago)17 January 2023 (1 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 cores89638
Core clock speed1365 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1695 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt53 Watt
Texture fill rate94.92no data
Floating-point processing power3.037 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs56no 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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedmedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR6LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth80 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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.6no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 December 2020 17 January 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 53 Watt

T500 Mobile has 194.4% lower power consumption.

Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro T500 Mobile and Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Apple M2 Max 38-Core GPU is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro T500 Mobile
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