AMD Radeon Pro 560X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 560X and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 560X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1004 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 42.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 24
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 5080 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 12x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3678 vs 306
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 711 vs 309
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 16 July 2018 vs 1 March 2007
Core clock speed 1004 MHz vs 575 MHz
Pipelines 1024 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed 5080 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3678 vs 306
PassMark - G2D Mark 711 vs 309

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 560X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3678
306
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
711
309
Name AMD Radeon Pro 560X NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3678 306
PassMark - G2D Mark 711 309
Geekbench - OpenCL 17520
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 48.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 679.583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 62.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 247.728
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5367
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2495
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5367
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2495
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 560X NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Curie
Code name Polaris 21 G71
Launch date 16 July 2018 1 March 2007
Place in performance rating 541 511
Type Mobile workstation Mobile workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $99.99
Price now $99.99
Value for money (0-100) 3.97

Technical info

Core clock speed 1004 MHz 575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1024 24
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 278 million
Boost clock speed 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 13.8 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-III
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Memory bus width 128 Bit 700 Bit
Memory clock speed 5080 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 38.4 GB / s
Shared memory 0