T500 Max-Q vs RTX A500 Embedded

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking628not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency17.41no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA107STU117
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date30 March 2022 (2 years ago)2 December 2020 (4 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 cores2048896
Core clock speed435 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1335 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors8,700 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate85.4479.80
Floating-point processing power5.468 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6456
Tensor Cores64no data
Ray Tracing Cores16no 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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable 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 Model6.76.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.67.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2022 2 December 2020
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 18 Watt

RTX A500 Embedded has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 11.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A500 Embedded and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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