Quadro P500 and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

Quadro P500

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GP108

GA107

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Laptop

Release date

November 2017

March 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

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Boost clock speed

1519 MHz

1537 MHz

Core clock speed

1455 MHz

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Floating-point performance

679.9 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

18 Watt

60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

21.25

98.37

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32.1 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

3x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

DirectX

12.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.1.0.1

1.3