AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 14% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
8x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
18.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 96
10.7x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Launch date	7 March 2013 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

5.7x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.802
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1230.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	370.179
PassMark - G3D Mark		571
PassMark - G2D Mark		365
Geekbench - OpenCL		8743

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Tahiti	GF108
Launch date	7 March 2013	22 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$449
Place in performance rating	601	603
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,867 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1792	96
Texture fill rate	89.6 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3