NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI FireGL V3100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI FireGL V3100 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.

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

ATI FireGL V3100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 79% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 391 MHz
7.2x more texture fill rate: 11.2 GTexel / s vs 1.564 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 392 MHz
10.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 571 vs 53
Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 275

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 391 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s vs 1.564 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 392 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	571 vs 53
PassMark - G2D Mark	365 vs 275

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

275

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FireGL V3100
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	53
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	275
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FireGL V3100
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 9
Code name	GF108	RV370
Launch date	22 February 2011	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	602	606
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	391 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	96
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	1.564 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	3.136 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	392 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR