RTX A500 vs Radeon RX Vega Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated312
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.06
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega MobileGA107
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)10 November 2021 (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 cores17922048
Core clock speedno data1440 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rateno data113.3
Floating-point processing powerno data7.25 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data1-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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.0 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 10 November 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 90 Watt 60 Watt

RTX A500 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega Mobile and RTX A500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega Mobile is a notebook card while RTX A500 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega Mobile
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