NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI FireGL V8600 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 V8600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 2% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 688 MHz
Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 11.2 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
4.5x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 159 Watt
Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1736 MHz

Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 159 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1736 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8600

3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
Around 64% better floating-point performance: 440.3 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 839 vs 571
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 406 vs 365

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	320 vs 96
Floating-point performance	440.3 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	839 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	406 vs 365

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

839

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

406

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FireGL V8600
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	839
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	406
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FireGL V8600
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	R600
Launch date	22 February 2011	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	603	363
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,899
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	688 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops	440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	96	320
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	159 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		254 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1736 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR4