NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI FirePro V9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI FirePro V9800 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).

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

ATI FirePro V9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
7.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 250 Watt

Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 9 September 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V9800

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 700 MHz
6.1x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
16.7x more pipelines: 1600 vs 96
10.1x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
2.6x more memory clock speed: 4600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2727 vs 571
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 655 vs 365

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2727 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	655 vs 365

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI FirePro V9800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

2727

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

655

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FirePro V9800
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	2727
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	655
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		9.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		738.1
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.153
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		118.756

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI FirePro V9800
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF108	Cypress
Launch date	22 February 2011	9 September 2010
Place in performance rating	630	631
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Launch price (MSRP)		$3,499
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops	2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	1600
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	147.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5