Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated198
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data53.94
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU104BAD107
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date8 June 2020 (4 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores30722048
Core clock speed1035 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate296.6129.6
Floating-point processing power9.492 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs19264
Tensor Cores38464
Ray Tracing Cores4816

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 datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8

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 amount16 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s128.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2020 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 214.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh
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