Quadro T500 Mobile vs Quadro P5000 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated474
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data35.05
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameN17E-Q5 Max-QTU117
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date11 January 2017 (7 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 cores2048896
Core clock speed1101 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speed1366 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rateno data94.92
Floating-point processing powerno data3.037 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data56

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 sizelargemedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16

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 amount16 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed6006 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data80 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 dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2017 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 18 Watt

P5000 Max-Q has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

T500 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 455.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P5000 Max-Q and Quadro T500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro P5000 Max-Q
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