AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 12.3x more texture fill rate: 137.5 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
  • 21.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 96
  • 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
  • 3.7x more memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 3.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33891 vs 8743
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 August 2016 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed 926 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 137.5 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 33891 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

  • 54.9x better floating-point performance: 268.8 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
  • 3.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 120 Watt
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
33891
8743
Name AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Geekbench - OpenCL 33891 8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 111.543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1817.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 99.875
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 511.362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1674
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3678
PassMark - G3D Mark 571
PassMark - G2D Mark 365

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 470 (Laptop) NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Fermi
Code name Ellesmere GF108
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 4 August 2016 22 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $549.99
Place in performance rating 491 605
Price now $109.99 $275.14
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 91.95 3.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1206 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 926 MHz 700 MHz
Floating-point performance 4.9 TFLOPs 268.8 gflops
GPU Power 85-110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2048 96
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 137.5 GTexel / s 11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6600 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore