T500 Max-Q vs RTX A2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking137not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation86.05no data
Power efficiency36.70no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA106TU117
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date10 August 2021 (3 years ago)2 December 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3328896
Core clock speed562 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate124.879.80
Floating-point processing power7.987 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs10456
Tensor Cores104no data
Ray Tracing Cores26no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length167 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s80 GB/s

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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.86.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.67.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 August 2021 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 18 Watt

RTX A2000 has an age advantage of 8 months, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 288.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A2000 and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A2000 is a workstation card while T500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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