NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 2GB VRAM Quadro M520 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
+583%
5.468 TFLOPS
Quadro M520 Mobile
0.8 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Jan 2017
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
435 MHz
Base Clock
-
1335 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
40.10GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
384
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.328 GPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.66 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
799.5 GFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.98 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GM108
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
200 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
