RTX A500 Mobile vs Quadro 5000 SDI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated311
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data20.05
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGF100GA107S
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date23 February 2011 (13 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,899 no data

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 cores3522048
Core clock speed513 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1537 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)172 Watt60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate22.5798.37
Floating-point processing power0.7223 TFLOPS6.296 TFLOPS
ROPs4048
TMUs4464
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length248 mmno data
WidthQuad-slotno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2.5 GB4 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth120.0 GB/s96 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 February 2011 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2.5 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 172 Watt 60 Watt

RTX A500 Mobile has an age advantage of 11 years, a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 186.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 5000 SDI and RTX A500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 5000 SDI is a workstation card while RTX A500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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