Quadro T1200 Max-Q vs RTX A5500 Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGA103TU117
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date22 March 2022 (2 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 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 cores74241024
Core clock speed585 MHz855 MHz
Boost clock speed1260 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors22,000 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate292.391.20
Floating-point processing power18.71 TFLOPS2.918 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs23264
Tensor Cores232no data
Ray Tracing Cores58no data

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 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s160.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.67.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 18 Watt

RTX A5500 Max-Q has an age advantage of 11 months, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 50% more advanced lithography process.

T1200 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 344.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A5500 Max-Q and Quadro T1200 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
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NVIDIA Quadro T1200 Max-Q
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