RTX A500 Mobile vs Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh

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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
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU106GA107S
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 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 cores19202048
Core clock speed945 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed1380 MHz1537 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate165.698.37
Floating-point processing power5.299 TFLOPS6.296 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs12064
Tensor Cores24064
Ray Tracing Cores3016

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.58.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 60 Watt

RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX A500 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh and RTX A500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh
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NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
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