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.

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

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

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	602	604
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