T500 Max-Q vs Tesla T4

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking198not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency29.21no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU117
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 September 2018 (6 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 cores2560896
Core clock speed585 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate254.479.80
Floating-point processing power8.141 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs16056
Tensor Cores320no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no 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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s80 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 September 2018 2 December 2020
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 18 Watt

Tesla T4 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 288.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla T4 and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla T4 is a workstation card while T500 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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