NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and ATI Radeon X1600 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) 4 month(s) later
- Around 40% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
- 5.6x more texture fill rate: 11.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
- Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 41 Watt
- 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
- 2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 780 MHz
- 5.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 571 vs 99
- Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 273
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 22 February 2011 vs 1 October 2007 |
Core clock speed | 700 MHz vs 500 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 11.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 90 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 35 Watt vs 41 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 256 MB |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz vs 780 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 571 vs 99 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 365 vs 273 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA Quadro 500M | ATI Radeon X1600 PRO |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 571 | 99 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 365 | 273 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 8743 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA Quadro 500M | ATI Radeon X1600 PRO | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi | R500 |
Code name | GF108 | RV530 |
Launch date | 22 February 2011 | 1 October 2007 |
Place in performance rating | 605 | 606 |
Price now | $275.14 | |
Type | Workstation | Desktop |
Value for money (0-100) | 3.18 | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 700 MHz | 500 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 268.8 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 90 nm |
Pipelines | 96 | |
Texture fill rate | 11.2 GTexel / s | 2 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 35 Watt | 41 Watt |
Transistor count | 585 million | 157 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-A (3.0) | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 9.0c |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 256 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | 12.48 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 780 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR3 |