NVIDIA Quadro K500M videocard review

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

38566

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	887
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