AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL 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. 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 Vega M GL

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 931 MHz vs 700 MHz
7.2x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 96
9.6x better floating-point performance: 2,588 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
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
6.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3900 vs 571
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 471 vs 365
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19459 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 February 2018 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	931 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,588 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3900 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	471 vs 365
Geekbench - OpenCL	19459 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 65 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3900

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

471

365

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

19459

8743

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3900	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	471	365
Geekbench - OpenCL	19459	8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	58.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1235.247
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.195
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	75.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	252.311
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6318
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6318
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1514
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2091

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi
Code name	Polaris 22	GF108
Launch date	1 February 2018	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	605	608
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1011 MHz
Core clock speed	931 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,588 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	96
Texture fill rate	80.88 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	204.8 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	1024 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	DDR3
Shared memory	0