Quadro P500 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated683
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.10
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameVega 10GP108
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date13 July 2017 (7 years ago)5 January 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,489 no data

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 cores4096256
Core clock speed1382 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1600 MHz1518 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate409.624.29
Floating-point processing power13.11 TFLOPS0.7772 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs25616

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB2 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed945 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/s40.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 July 2017 5 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 18 Watt

Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Quadro P500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 months, and 1983.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and Quadro P500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled is a workstation card while Quadro P500 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled
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NVIDIA Quadro P500
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