AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100 vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100 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, 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).

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 61% higher core clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 700 MHz
6.9x more texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
10.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 96
9.2x better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3654 vs 571
Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 630 vs 365
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17715 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 November 2016 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	1125 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3654 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	630 vs 365
Geekbench - OpenCL	17715 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3654

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

630

365

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17715

8743

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3654	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	630	365
Geekbench - OpenCL	17715	8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55.077
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	830.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	82.584
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	225.985
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5431
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2678
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5431
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2678

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi
Code name	Baffin	GF108
Launch date	10 November 2016	22 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Place in performance rating	604	606
Price now	$259.99	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	19.63	3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1024	96
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	96 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3