AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 540 and NVIDIA Quadro K500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 540

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 184
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1362 vs 480

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 1 June 2012
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	247 vs 184
PassMark - G3D Mark	1362 vs 480

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

272x better floating-point performance: 326.4 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
266.7x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 6 Gbps

Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 6 Gbps

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 540
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

184

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1362

480

Name	AMD Radeon 540	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	184
PassMark - G3D Mark	1362	480
Geekbench - OpenCL	35524
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2355
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1726
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1726

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 540	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Architecture	4th Gen GCN	Kepler
Code name	Topaz	GK107
Design	AMD Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	877	879
Type	Notebook	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Compute units	8
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs	326.4 gflops
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture Units	32
Core clock speed		850 MHz
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
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Display Connectors		No outputs
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
Vulkan
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6 Gbps	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ Chill
FreeSync
HDMI 4K Support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized