NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 700 MHz
16.7x more texture fill rate: 187.5 billion / sec vs 11.2 GTexel / s
28x more pipelines: 2688 vs 96
17.5x better floating-point performance: 4,709 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
14.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8190 vs 571
Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 630 vs 365
2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 23870 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 February 2013 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	837 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	187.5 billion / sec vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2688 vs 96
Floating-point performance	4,709 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8190 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	630 vs 365
Geekbench - OpenCL	23870 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

7.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 250 Watt
300x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8190

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

630

365

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

23870

8743

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	8190	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	630	365
Geekbench - OpenCL	23870	8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	62.027
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1218.137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	36.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	215.546
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2901

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN	NVIDIA Quadro 500M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi
Code name	GK110	GF108
Launch date	19 February 2013	22 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$999
Place in performance rating	428	602
Price now	$2,054.59	$275.14
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	5.09	3.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	876 MHz
Core clock speed	837 MHz	700 MHz
CUDA cores	2688
Floating-point performance	4,709 gflops	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2688	96
Texture fill rate	187.5 billion / sec	11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	No outputs
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	One 8-pin and one 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384-bit GDDR5	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA