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
GPU 1
GPU 2
571
99
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
365
273
Name NVIDIA Quadro 500M ATI Radeon X1600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 571 99
PassMark - G2D Mark 365 273
Geekbench - OpenCL 8743

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 500M ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

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