T500 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started T500 Max-Q sales 2 December 2020. This is a Turing architecture notebook card based on 12 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 80 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 18 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about T500 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2022) | |
| GPU code name | TU117 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 2 December 2020 (4 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
T500 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of T500 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 896 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 795 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1425 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 4,700 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 18 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 79.80 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.554 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 56 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 896 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of T500 Max-Q 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 3.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on T500 Max-Q: 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 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 80 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on T500 Max-Q. 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 support
APIs supported by T500 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 (6.4) | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 7.5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to T500 Max-Q is Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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