RTX A4500 Max-Q vs Quadro T500 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking474not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency35.05no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU117GA104
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date2 December 2020 (3 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 cores8965888
Core clock speed1365 MHz510 MHz
Boost clock speed1695 MHz1215 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate94.92223.6
Floating-point processing power3.037 TFLOPS14.31 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs56184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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 sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s448.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 December 2020 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 80 Watt

T500 Mobile has 344.4% lower power consumption.

RTX A4500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro T500 Mobile and RTX A4500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro T500 Mobile
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