Quadro T500 Mobile vs Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated474
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data36.48
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRavenTU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date23 April 2018 (6 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 cores512896
Core clock speed300 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate35.2094.92
Floating-point processing power1.126 TFLOPS3.037 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs3256

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2018 2 December 2020
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 18 Watt

T500 Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 94.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and Quadro T500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 8 Efficient is a desktop card while Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
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