NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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, 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
- Around 48% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 700 MHz
- 4.6x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
- 16x more pipelines: 1536 vs 96
- 6.2x better floating-point performance: 1,659 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
- 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
- Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
- 12.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7352 vs 571
- Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 499 vs 365
- 2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 21639 vs 8743
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 7 October 2014 vs 22 February 2011 |
Core clock speed | 1038 MHz vs 700 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 51.84 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 1536 vs 96 |
Floating-point performance | 1,659 gflops vs 268.8 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 40 nm |
Maximum memory size | 8 GB vs 1 GB |
Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 7352 vs 571 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 499 vs 365 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 21639 vs 8743 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M
- 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 35 Watt vs 100 Watt |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Geekbench - OpenCL |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M | NVIDIA Quadro 500M |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 7352 | 571 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 499 | 365 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 21639 | 8743 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 92.634 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1146.534 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 6.776 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 18.431 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 308.42 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 10572 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3695 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3342 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 10572 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3695 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3342 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 2942 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M | NVIDIA Quadro 500M | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | Fermi |
Code name | GM204 | GF108 |
Launch date | 7 October 2014 | 22 February 2011 |
Place in performance rating | 450 | 602 |
Type | Laptop | Workstation |
Price now | $275.14 | |
Value for money (0-100) | 3.18 | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1127 MHz | |
Core clock speed | 1038 MHz | 700 MHz |
CUDA cores | 1536 | |
Floating-point performance | 1,659 gflops | 268.8 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 40 nm |
Pipelines | 1536 | 96 |
Texture fill rate | 51.84 GTexel / s | 11.2 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100 Watt | 35 Watt |
Transistor count | 5,200 million | 585 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
G-SYNC support | ||
HDMI | ||
VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | MXM-A (3.0) |
Laptop size | large | |
SLI options | 1 | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12.0 (11_0) |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.6 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | 1 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 160 GB / s | 28.8 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz | 1800 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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Ansel | ||
BatteryBoost | ||
CUDA | ||
DSR | ||
GameStream | ||
GameWorks | ||
GeForce Experience | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost | ||
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
Optimus | ||
SLI |