Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6 vs Radeon Sky 500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking401not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.68no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePitcairnTU117B
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date27 March 2013 (11 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 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 cores1280896
Core clock speed950 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate76.0092.40
Floating-point processing power2.432 TFLOPS2.957 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8056

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length242 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / full lengthno 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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth154 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors1x DisplayPortNo outputs
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 March 2013 8 June 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 50 Watt

T1000 Mobile GDDR6 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Sky 500 and Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Sky 500 is a workstation card while Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Sky 500
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