NVIDIA Quadro K500M videocard review

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Quadro K500M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 1 June 2012. The videocard is designed for mobile workstation-computers and based on Kepler microarchitecture codenamed GK107.

Core clock speed - 850 MHz. Texture fill rate - 13.6 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 192. Floating-point performance - 326.4 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 28 nm. Transistors count - 1,270 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 35 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3 / GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 64 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1600 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 12.8 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
184
PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38588
480
Name Value
PassMark - G2D Mark 184
PassMark - G3D Mark 480

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Kepler
Code name GK107
Launch date 1 June 2012
Place in performance rating 888
Type Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory 0