T500 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking148not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.97no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU106BTU117
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)2 December 2020 (3 years ago)

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 cores2304896
Core clock speed1305 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1485 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate213.879.80
Floating-point processing power6.843 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs14456
Tensor Cores288no data
Ray Tracing Cores36no data

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s80 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2019 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 18 Watt

RTX 2070 Mobile has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 538.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while T500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
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