AMD Radeon R9 370 vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 370 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R9 370

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 370

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 700 MHz
7x more texture fill rate: 78 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 96
9.3x better floating-point performance: 2,496 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
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
3.1x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
8.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4722 vs 571
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 781 vs 365
8.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 75346 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	78 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,496 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4722 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	781 vs 365
Geekbench - OpenCL	75346 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

3.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 110 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 110 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 370
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4722

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

781

365

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

75346

8743

Name	AMD Radeon R9 370	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	4722	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	781	365
Geekbench - OpenCL	75346	8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	64.576
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	336.491
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6096
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6096
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 370	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Trinidad	GF108
Launch date	5 May 2015	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	404	602
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	975 MHz
Core clock speed	925 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,496 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	96
Texture fill rate	78 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	221 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5600 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3