NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A 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: 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 700 MHz
2.5x more texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
3.4x better floating-point performance: 903.2 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 35 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 32359 vs 8743
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 365
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 571

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	1072 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359 vs 8743
PassMark - G2D Mark	716 vs 365
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852 vs 571

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

32359

8743

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

716

365

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1852

571

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Geekbench - OpenCL	32359	8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	107.63
PassMark - G2D Mark	716	365
PassMark - G3D Mark	1852	571

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 945A	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Fermi
Code name	GM108	GF108
Launch date	13 March 2015	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	603	605
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Price now		$275.14
Value for money (0-100)		3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1072 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	903.2 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	96
Texture fill rate	28.22 GTexel / s	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3