AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 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, 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.

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
2.8x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 512 vs 192
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
4.4x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
5.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2703 vs 480
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 476 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 1 June 2012
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 192
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2703 vs 480
PassMark - G2D Mark	476 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

272x better floating-point performance: 326.4 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2703

480

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

476

184

Name	AMD Radeon RX 550	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2703	480
PassMark - G2D Mark	476	184
Geekbench - OpenCL	11624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	129

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 550	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Kepler
Code name	Lexa	GK107
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	1 June 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	888	891
Price now	$75
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	59.51
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	192
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel / s	13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
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	112 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)