NVIDIA T500
The NVIDIA T500 is a graphics card. It has 4.1 GB of video memory and a 18 W board power rating. It scores 3,616 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 (FL 12_1), OpenGL 4.6 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Depth: 28 recorded fields, 8 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified July 25, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs and NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix. Coverage: 3 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA T500 scores 3,616 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 75.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #682), measured across 1,091 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 301.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA T500 averages DirectX 9 51 fps, DirectX 10 13 fps, DirectX 11 26 fps, DirectX 12 23 fps and GPU Compute 1,850 ops/s, across 1,091 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA T500 states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 4.1 GB of memory, a core clock of 1185 MHz, DirectX 12_1 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2021-01-27. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Memory
The NVIDIA T500 is equipped with 4.1 GB of memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA T500 has a board power rating of 18 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA T500 supports DirectX 12 (FL 12_1), OpenGL 4.6 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.
Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA T500. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA T500.
Features
The NVIDIA T500 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 7.5Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA T500 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA T500 supports CUDA (Compute capability 7.5) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
Feex holds no codec support statement for the NVIDIA T500. It does not support hardware encode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1 and decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Not supported | Not supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Not supported | Not supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Not supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA T500 is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA T500 (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA T500 have?
The NVIDIA T500 has 4.1 GB of video memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA T500 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA T500 has a board power rating of 18 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA T500?
The NVIDIA T500 scores 3,616 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 75.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #682. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 23 fps.
Does the NVIDIA T500 support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA T500.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA T500?
The NVIDIA T500 has CUDA compute capability 7.5.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA T500 use?
The NVIDIA T500 connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.