T500 Max-Q vs RTX A5000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking96not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency19.28no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA104TU117
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)2 December 2020 (3 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 cores6144896
Core clock speed900 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1575 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate302.479.80
Floating-point processing power19.35 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs19256
Tensor Cores192no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 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 amount16 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s80 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 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 12 April 2021 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 18 Watt

RTX A5000 Mobile has an age advantage of 4 months, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 733.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5000 Mobile and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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