AMD Radeon R9 350 vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 350 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 350

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 350

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 700 MHz
8x more pipelines: 768 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 14% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10008 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 June 2015 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 700 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	10008 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

2.7x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 95 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 350
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

10008

8743

Name	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Geekbench - OpenCL	10008	8743
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2609
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3911
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	9664
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	9664
PassMark - G3D Mark		571
PassMark - G2D Mark		365

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 350	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	Tobago	Fermi
Launch date	12 June 2015	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	601	602
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Code name		GF108
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Core clock speed	925 MHz	700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1421 GFLOPS
Pipelines	768	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	35 Watt
Floating-point performance		268.8 gflops
Texture fill rate		11.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count		585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2 x DisplayPort, DVI	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDCP
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.3	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)