NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 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 Radeon HD 2900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
6.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 215 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1656 MHz

Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 14 May 2007
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 215 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1656 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 743 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 11.89 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
Around 77% better floating-point performance: 475.5 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 660 vs 571
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 397 vs 365

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	743 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	11.89 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 96
Floating-point performance	475.5 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	660 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	397 vs 365

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

660

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

397

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	660
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	397
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	R600
Launch date	22 February 2011	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	602	375
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	743 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops	475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	96	320
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	11.89 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	720 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		241 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	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	106.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1656 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3