NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 66% higher core clock speed: 832 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 80 nm

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	832 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 80 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Geekbench - OpenCL	41565
PassMark - G2D Mark		308
PassMark - G3D Mark		79

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Tesla
Code name	GA107S	C78
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	522	524
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	80 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		40 Watt
Transistor count		210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	10.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6