T500 Max-Q vs RTX A500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking312not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.06no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA107TU117
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date10 November 2021 (3 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 speed1440 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate113.379.80
Floating-point processing power7.25 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
Width1-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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable 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 10 November 2021 2 December 2020
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 18 Watt

RTX A500 has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 233.3% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that RTX A500 is a workstation card while T500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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