NVIDIA started RTX A500 Mobile sales 22 March 2022. This is an Ampere architecture notebook card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 30 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about RTX A500 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	346
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	39.78	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GA107S
Market segment	Mobile workstation
Release date	22 March 2022 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

RTX A500 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of RTX A500 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Core clock speed	832 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	8,700 million	of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop)
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	98.37	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	6.296 TFLOPS	of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs	32	of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs	64	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	64	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	16	of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of RTX A500 Mobile and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on RTX A500 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-
Resizable BAR	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on RTX A500 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by RTX A500 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.8
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	8.6
DLSS	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of RTX A500 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RTX A500 Mobile 16.81

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX A500 Mobile 6690

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RTX A500 Mobile 10818

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RTX A500 Mobile 40923

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RTX A500 Mobile 7598

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RTX A500 Mobile 48496

3DMark Time Spy Graphics

RTX A500 Mobile 2995

Gaming performance

Let's see how good RTX A500 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	43
1440p	23
4K	4

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	90−95
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	60−65

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70
Counter-Strike 2	90−95
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	60−65
Far Cry 5	54
Fortnite	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	65−70
Forza Horizon 5	50−55
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	60−65
Valorant	120−130

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70
Counter-Strike 2	90−95
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	210−220
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	60−65
Dota 2	95−100
Far Cry 5	48
Fortnite	90−95
Forza Horizon 4	65−70
Forza Horizon 5	50−55
Grand Theft Auto V	66
Metro Exodus	30−35
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	60−65
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	55
Valorant	120−130

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35
Dead Island 2	60−65
Dota 2	95−100
Far Cry 5	44
Forza Horizon 4	65−70
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	60−65
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	29
Valorant	120−130

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite

90−95

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	30−35
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	120−130
Grand Theft Auto V	30
Metro Exodus	20−22
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	150−160
Valorant	160−170

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	45−50
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16
Dead Island 2	27−30
Far Cry 5	35−40
Forza Horizon 4	40−45
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	24−27

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite

35−40

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	12−14
Dead Island 2	16−18
Grand Theft Auto V	30−33
Metro Exodus	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	21−24
Valorant	90−95

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	24−27
Counter-Strike 2	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Dead Island 2	16−18
Dota 2	55−60
Far Cry 5	18−20
Forza Horizon 4	27−30
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	16−18

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite

16−18

Closest competitors

RTX A500 Mobile's performance relative to its closest rivals among mobile workstation graphics cards.

Quadro T2000 Max-Q 102.02

Quadro T1000 Max-Q 101.13

Radeon Pro 5500M 100.65

RTX A500 Mobile 100

Quadro T1000 Mobile 97.8

Quadro P3000 Mobile 96.07

Radeon Pro 570 94.71

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A500 Mobile is Radeon Pro 5500M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.