AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1090-1175 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 1200-1275 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 5913x more texture fill rate: 81.60 GTexel/s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
  • 42.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 24
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 5.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 11.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3653 vs 306
  • Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 488 vs 309
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 1 March 2007
Core clock speed 1090-1175 MHz vs 575 MHz
Boost clock speed 1200-1275 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 81.60 GTexel/s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3653 vs 306
PassMark - G2D Mark 488 vs 309

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

  • Around 78% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 60-80 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 60-80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3653
306
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
488
309
Name AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3653 306
PassMark - G2D Mark 488 309
Geekbench - OpenCL 57671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 56.81
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 775.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.602
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 257.062
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1774

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Curie
Code name Polaris 21 G71
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 1 March 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $99 $99.99
Place in performance rating 522 520
Price now $104.99 $99.99
Type Desktop, Laptop Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100) 54.35 3.97

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200-1275 MHz 575 MHz
Compute units 14/16
Core clock speed 1090-1175 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 2.6 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1024 24
Pixel fill rate 20.40 GP/s
Render output units 16
Stream Processors 896/1024
Texture fill rate 81.60 GTexel/s 13.8 GTexel / s
Texture Units 64
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60-80 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 278 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

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-III
Length 170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 700 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
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)