RTX A500 Mobile vs Radeon HD 8590M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated311
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.06
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSunGA107S
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)22 March 2022 (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 cores3202048
Core clock speed750 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHz1537 MHz
Number of transistors690 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate16.5098.37
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPS6.296 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm

RTX A500 Mobile has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8590M and RTX A500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8590M is a notebook graphics card while RTX A500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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