Quadro T500 Mobile vs Radeon RX 5900 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated476
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data35.22
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 21TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)2 December 2020 (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 cores4352896
Core clock speedno data1365 MHz
Boost clock speed1735 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate471.994.92
Floating-point processing power15.1 TFLOPS3.037 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs27256

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 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 amount12 GB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 GB/s80 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 18 Watt

RX 5900 XT has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

T500 Mobile, on the other hand, has 1566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5900 XT and Quadro T500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5900 XT is a desktop card while Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 5900 XT
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