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