AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 74% higher core clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 700 MHz
3483x more texture fill rate: 39.01 GTexel/s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
5.3x more pipelines: 512 vs 96
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 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
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 368 vs 365
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1857 vs 571
Around 8% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9416 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	1219 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.01 GTexel/s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	368 vs 365
PassMark - G3D Mark	1857 vs 571
Geekbench - OpenCL	9416 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

224x better floating-point performance: 268.8 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

368

365

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1857

571

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9416

8743

Name	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G2D Mark	368	365
PassMark - G3D Mark	1857	571
Geekbench - OpenCL	9416	8743
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2296

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 540 OEM	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Fermi
Code name	Cape Verde	GF108
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	3rd Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	623	602
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1219 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1219 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	96
Pixel fill rate	19.50 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512
Texture fill rate	39.01 GTexel/s	11.2 GTexel / s
Texture Units	32
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,500 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
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	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
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
Enduro
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)