AMD Radeon R9 M375X vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M375X and NVIDIA Quadro K500M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 M375X

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M375X

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 850 MHz
3x more texture fill rate: 40.6 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 192
4x better floating-point performance: 1,299 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1769 vs 480
Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 337 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 1 June 2012
Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.6 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,299 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1769 vs 480
PassMark - G2D Mark	337 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Around 42% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1125 MHz

Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1125 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M375X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1769

480

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

337

184

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M375X	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1769	480
PassMark - G2D Mark	337	184
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3548
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3548
Geekbench - OpenCL	8221
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1333
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1333
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2185
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2185

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M375X	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kepler
Code name	Tropo	GK107
Design	AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date	5 May 2015	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	890	893
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1015 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	925 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,299 gflops	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	192
Texture fill rate	40.6 GTexel / s	13.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	1,270 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
Mantle
OpenCL	Not Listed
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore