RTX A500 and T500 Max-Q - video card comparison

RTX A500

T500 Max-Q

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

GA107

TU117

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2021

December 2020

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

1425 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

-

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

896

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

18 Watt

Texture fill rate

113.3

79.80

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

14 GB/s

10 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

80 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

8.6

7.5

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.7 (6.4)

Vulkan

1.3

1.3