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.

 

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
53
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 605 607
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