NVIDIA Quadro 500M videocard review

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Quadro 500M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 22 February 2011. The videocard is designed for workstation-computers and based on Fermi microarchitecture codenamed GF108.

Core clock speed - 700 MHz. Texture fill rate - 11.2 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 96. Floating-point performance - 268.8 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 585 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 35 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 28.8 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38582
571
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
365
Geekbench
OpenCL
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
345616
8743
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 571
PassMark - G2D Mark 365
Geekbench - OpenCL 8743

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Fermi
Code name GF108
Launch date 22 February 2011
Place in performance rating 605
Price now $275.14
Type Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 3.18

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 96
Texture fill rate 11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0)

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3