AMD Radeon Vega 10 vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 10 and NVIDIA Quadro K500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. 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 Vega 10

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 10

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1543 vs 480
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 358 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 October 2017 vs 1 June 2012
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1543 vs 480
PassMark - G2D Mark	358 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 10
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1543

480

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

358

184

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 10	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1543	480
PassMark - G2D Mark	358	184
Geekbench - OpenCL	9466
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	26.485
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	357.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	37.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	155.274
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3402
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3235
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3402
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3235
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	797

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 10	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK107
Launch date	26 October 2017	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	902	905
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Core clock speed		850 MHz
Floating-point performance		326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		192
Texture fill rate		13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Transistor count		1,270 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory type		DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size		medium sized