RTX A500 Mobile vs Radeon R7 265X OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated306
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.14
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCuracaoGA107S
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date12 August 2014 (10 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 cores12802048
Core clock speed900 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz1537 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate74.0098.37
Floating-point processing power2.368 TFLOPS6.296 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs8064
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

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 12 August 2014 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 60 Watt

RTX A500 Mobile has an age advantage of 7 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 265X OEM and RTX A500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 265X OEM is a desktop card while RTX A500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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