RTX A4500 Mobile vs Tesla K10

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated78
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.14
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGK104GA104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date1 May 2012 (12 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,099 no data

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 cores15365888
Core clock speed745 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate95.36276.0
Floating-point processing power2.289 TFLOPS17.66 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs128184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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 datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length272 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s512.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.08.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2012 22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 140 Watt

RTX A4500 Mobile has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 60.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K10 and RTX A4500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K10 is a workstation card while RTX A4500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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