Quadro P520 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking273not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.63no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameNavi 24GP108
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)23 May 2019 (5 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 cores1024384
Core clock speed2000 MHz1303 MHz
Boost clock speed2400 MHz1493 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate153.635.83
Floating-point processing power4.915 TFLOPS1.147 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6424
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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s44 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 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 Model6.66.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 23 May 2019
Chip lithography 6 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 18 Watt

RX 6500M has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

P520 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 177.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500M and Quadro P520 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6500M is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P520 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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