Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs Radeon Vega 6 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated145
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.39
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCezanneTU104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date13 April 2021 (3 years ago)27 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 cores3843072
Core clock speed300 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1350 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate38.40259.2
Floating-point processing power1.229 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs24192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 datalarge
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.11.2
Vulkan1.21.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 April 2021 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 80 Watt

Vega 6 Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, a 71.4% more advanced lithography process, and 77.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 6 Mobile and Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 6 Mobile is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Vega 6 Mobile
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