Quadro T500 Mobile vs ATI Radeon VE

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated477
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data35.32
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRage 6TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date19 February 2001 (23 years ago)2 December 2020 (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 coresno data896
Core clock speed183 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistors30 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate0.5594.92
Floating-point processing powerno data3.037 TFLOPS
ROPs132
TMUs356

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed183 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.928 GB/s80 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX7.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 February 2001 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 18 Watt

T500 Mobile has an age advantage of 19 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 1400% more advanced lithography process, and 27.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon VE and Quadro T500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon VE is a desktop card while Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Radeon VE
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