NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
- Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
- Core clock speed
- Max video memory 4 GB
- Memory type GDDR6
- Memory clock speed 14000
- Maximum resolution
Summary
NVIDIA started RTX A500 Mobile sales 30 March 2022. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP).
We have no data on RTX A500 Mobile benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about RTX A500 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | GA107 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 30 March 2022 (1 year old) |
Technical specs
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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1537 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP) | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 98.37 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
Information on RTX A500 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
Memory
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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 96 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
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 | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by RTX A500 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to RTX A500 Mobile is Radeon RX 5600M.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
