Quadro and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

Quadro

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Celsius (1999−2005)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV10

GA107

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

1999

March 2022

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

Boost clock speed

-

1537 MHz

Core clock speed

135 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

220 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

17 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

-

60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

0.54

98.37

Memory type

SDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

166 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

2.656 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x VGA

No outputs

DirectX

7.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

1.2

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3