RTX A500 vs Radeon R5 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated307
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.22
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSpectre SLGA107
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)10 November 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 cores2562048
Core clock speed497 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate7.952113.3
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPS7.25 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs1664
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x8
WidthIGP1-slot
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.06.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 10 November 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 60 Watt

R5 Graphics has 300% lower power consumption.

RTX A500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and RTX A500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop card while RTX A500 is a workstation one.


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