NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 850 MHz
3.3x more texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 192
4.4x better floating-point performance: 1,439 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2585 vs 480
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 June 2012
Core clock speed	914 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2585 vs 480
PassMark - G2D Mark	217 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2585

480

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

217

184

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2585	480
PassMark - G2D Mark	217	184
Geekbench - OpenCL	9730
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Kepler
Code name	GM107	GK107
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	886	888
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	850 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	640	192
Texture fill rate	44.96 GTexel / s	13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	32 or 80 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 or GDDR5	DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI