AMD FirePro S7000 vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro S7000 and NVIDIA Quadro 500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD FirePro S7000

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S7000

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 36% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 700 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 96
9x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
7.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4524 vs 571
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 705 vs 365

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 August 2012 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4524 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	705 vs 365

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

10x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 350 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 350 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro S7000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4524

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

705

365

Name	AMD FirePro S7000	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	4524	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	705	365
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	52.282
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1275.287
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	66.159
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	271.967
Geekbench - OpenCL		8743

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro S7000	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Pitcairn	GF108
Launch date	27 August 2012	22 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,249
Place in performance rating	399	602
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	96
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	350 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1
Dual-link DVI support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	292 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3