
HP ZBook Firefly 14 G11 laptop review: Core Ultra update with Nvidia RTX A500 graphics
Intel Core Ultra 7 165H | NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU | 14.00" | 1.5 kg
The NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU or A500 Mobile is a professional graphics card for mobile workstations. It is based on the GA107 Ampere chip and offers a slower performance than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU. It offers 2,048 CUDA, 16 Raytracing and 64 Tensor cores paired with a 64 Bit memory bus. It is available in different variants from 20 - 60 Watt (TGP) with different clock speeds (and performance). The GPU supports eDP 1.4b to connect the internal monitor and DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 for external connections.
There is no more Max-Q variant (formerly used for the low power variants) but every OEM can choose to implement Max-Q technologies (Dynamic Boost, WhisperMode).
The raw performance should be slower than the GeForce RTX 3050 for laptops at the same TGP level. Both GPUs depend heavily on good cooling and a high TGP for good performance. At a similar power consumption level the RTX A500 should be clearly faster than the old T500 and T550.
The GA107 chip offers 2.560 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. 1,280 INT32 ALUs). With Ampere all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. The A500 can only use 2048 CUDA cores. The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1).
The GA107 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip).
RTX A Series
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Codename | GA107 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | Ampere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 2048 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raytracing Cores | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tensor / AI Cores | 64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theoretical Performance | 7.3 TFLOPS FP32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 14000 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 64 Bit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 4 GB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bandwidth | 112 GB/s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12_2, Shader 6.7, OpenGL 4.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 8 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PCIe | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 30.03.2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | nvdam.widen.net |
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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F1 24 | 82.4 | 71.9 | 32.9 | 11.7 | ||
Ghost of Tsushima | 34.6 | 27.5 | 19.1 | 14.1 | ||
Alone in the Dark | 80.1 | 68.6 | 58.6 | 43.8 | ||
Dragon's Dogma 2 | 23.6 | 14.5 | ||||
Last Epoch | 76.7 | 58.2 | 49.3 | 33.3 | ||
Helldivers 2 | 19.5 | 12.8 | 12 | 10.9 | ||
Enshrouded | 24.4 | 18.7 | 14.3 | 8.28 | ||
Cyberpunk 2077 2.2 Phantom Liberty | 42 | 32 | 24 | 20 | 10.4 | 4.29 |
Baldur's Gate 3 | 40 | 33 | 29 | 28 | 17.8 | |
F1 23 | 57 | 56.3 | 43.1 | 10.9 | 6.63 | |
Hogwarts Legacy | 23 | 19.6 | 10.6 | 5.43 | ||
F1 22 | 92.5 | 85.2 | 57.8 | 16.9 | ||
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands | 66.2 | 53.5 | 36.2 | 27.6 | ||
Strange Brigade | 176 | 76 | 62 | 54 | 39.2 | |
Far Cry 5 | 82 | 54 | 48 | 44 | ||
X-Plane 11.11 | 116 | 94 | 78 | |||
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 85 | 45 | 32 | 23.3 | ||
Dota 2 Reborn | 159 | 131 | 104 | 98 | ||
The Witcher 3 | 155 | 93 | 55 | 29 | ||
GTA V | 173.3 | 161.7 | 89.7 | 42.9 | 29.8 | |
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 4 4 8 4 | 4 7 6 2 | 7 9 4 | 11 5 1 | 5 1 | 1 |
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