GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs RTX A500 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking306not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10076
Power efficiency21.14no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA107SGA107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)17 December 2021 (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 cores20482048
Core clock speed832 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed1537 MHz1155 MHz
Manufacturing process technology8 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)30 Watt
Texture fill rate98.3773.92
Floating-point processing power6.296 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs6464
Tensor Cores6464
Ray Tracing Cores1632

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 x8
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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s96 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 17 December 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 30 Watt

RTX A500 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 months.

RTX 2050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A500 Mobile and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX A500 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
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