T500 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started T500 Max-Q sales 2 December 2020. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 10 GB/s are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 80 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is 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 performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2021) | |
| GPU code name | TU117 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 2 December 2020 (3 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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1425 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 4,700 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 18 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 79.80 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on T500 Max-Q'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 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 10 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 80 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
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 compatibility
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 RX Vega M GL.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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