NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- Around 17% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
- Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 11.2 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
- 5.7x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 200 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
- Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Launch date | 22 February 2011 vs 12 December 2007 |
Core clock speed | 700 MHz vs 600 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 11.2 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 80 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 35 Watt vs 200 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 512 MB |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
- 3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
- Around 43% better floating-point performance: 384.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
- Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 628 vs 571
- Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 397 vs 365
Specifications (specs) | |
Pipelines | 320 vs 96 |
Floating-point performance | 384.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 628 vs 571 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 397 vs 365 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA Quadro 500M | ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 571 | 628 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 365 | 397 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 8743 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA Quadro 500M | ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi | TeraScale |
Code name | GF108 | R600 |
Launch date | 22 February 2011 | 12 December 2007 |
Place in performance rating | 602 | 379 |
Price now | $275.14 | |
Type | Workstation | Desktop |
Value for money (0-100) | 3.18 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 700 MHz | 600 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 268.8 gflops | 384.0 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 80 nm |
Pipelines | 96 | 320 |
Texture fill rate | 11.2 GTexel / s | 9.6 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 35 Watt | 200 Watt |
Transistor count | 585 million | 720 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-A (3.0) | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Length | 241 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | 118.4 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 512 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 1600 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR4 |