NVIDIA Quadro 500M videocard review

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

38588

571

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

365

Geekbench
OpenCL

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

345150

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