Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs Quadro P5200 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking165not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.55no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGP104Polaris 20
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 February 2018 (6 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 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 cores25602304
Core clock speed1316 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1569 MHz1077 MHz
Number of transistors7,200 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate251.0155.1
Floating-point processing power8.033 TFLOPS4.963 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs160144

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1804 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth230.9 GB/s256.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 February 2018 11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 14 nm

P5200 Max-Q has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 580X Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P5200 Max-Q and Radeon RX 580X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P5200 Max-Q is a mobile workstation card while Radeon RX 580X Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P5200 Max-Q
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AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile
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