GeForce GTX 1050 and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1050

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

October 2016

March 2022

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

300 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI

-

-

SLI options

-

-

Boost clock speed

1392 MHz

1537 MHz

Core clock speed

1290 MHz

-

CUDA cores

640

-

Floating-point performance

1,862 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

3,300 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

-

Texture fill rate

58.20

98.37

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7008 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

2.2

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

Ansel

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GPU Boost

3.0

-

VR Ready

+

-