NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI Radeon HD 5830 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

ATI Radeon HD 5830

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
5x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 175 Watt

Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 25 February 2010
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 175 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
4x more texture fill rate: 44.8 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
11.7x more pipelines: 1120 vs 96
6.7x better floating-point performance: 1,792.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1734 vs 571
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 399 vs 365

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	44.8 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1120 vs 96
Floating-point performance	1,792.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1734 vs 571
PassMark - G2D Mark	399 vs 365

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5830

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

1734

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

399

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI Radeon HD 5830
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	1734
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	399
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI Radeon HD 5830
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF108	Cypress
Launch date	22 February 2011	25 February 2010
Place in performance rating	603	537
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops	1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	1120
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	2,154 million
Boost clock speed		800 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		282 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity