NVIDIA P106-100 vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA P106-100 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: 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 P106-100

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 12.2x more texture fill rate: 136.7 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
  • 13.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 96
  • 16.3x better floating-point performance: 4,375 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 40 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
  • 4.4x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 11.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6357 vs 571
  • 4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34618 vs 8743
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 June 2017 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed 1506 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 136.7 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 96
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6357 vs 571
Geekbench - OpenCL 34618 vs 8743

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

  • 3.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 120 Watt
  • Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 255
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 120 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 365 vs 255

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA P106-100
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 500M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6357
571
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
255
365
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
34618
8743
Name NVIDIA P106-100 NVIDIA Quadro 500M
PassMark - G3D Mark 6357 571
PassMark - G2D Mark 255 365
Geekbench - OpenCL 34618 8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 163.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1705.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 76.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 448.036
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1680
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12824
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1860
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1680
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4059

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA P106-100 NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Fermi
Code name GP106 GF108
Launch date 19 June 2017 22 February 2011
Place in performance rating 425 602
Type Desktop Workstation
Price now $275.14
Value for money (0-100) 3.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1709 MHz
Core clock speed 1506 MHz 700 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,375 gflops 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1280 96
Texture fill rate 136.7 GTexel / s 11.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 4,400 million 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 250 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3