Quadro T500 Mobile vs Radeon Vega 3 Embedded

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 data35.33
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePicasso-MTU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date2019 (5 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 cores192896
Core clock speed300 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate14.4094.92
Floating-point processing power0.4608 TFLOPS3.037 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs1256

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
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data80 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 ConnectorsMotherboard DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 18 Watt

Vega 3 Embedded has 80% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 3 Embedded and Quadro T500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 3 Embedded is a desktop card while Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Vega 3 Embedded
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NVIDIA Quadro T500 Mobile
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