NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI FirePro M7740

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI FirePro M7740 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

ATI FirePro M7740

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 60 Watt

Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 4 August 2009
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 650 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 60 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7740

Around 86% higher texture fill rate: 20.8 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
6.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 96
3.1x better floating-point performance: 832.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 3384 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 665 vs 571
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 415 vs 365

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	20.8 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 96
Floating-point performance	832.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Memory clock speed	3384 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	665 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	415 vs 365

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI FirePro M7740

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

665

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

415

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FirePro M7740
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	665
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	415
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3309

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FirePro M7740
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	M97
Launch date	22 February 2011	4 August 2009
Place in performance rating	603	604
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops	832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	640
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	20.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	826 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	54.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3384 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0