NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and NVIDIA Quadro 5010M 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.

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 297

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	365 vs 297

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Around 93% higher texture fill rate: 21.6 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
2.6x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 2600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1691 vs 571
Around 86% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 16261 vs 8743

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	21.6 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 96
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1691 vs 571
Geekbench - OpenCL	16261 vs 8743

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

1691

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

365

297

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

8743

16261

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
PassMark - G3D Mark	571	1691
PassMark - G2D Mark	365	297
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743	16261

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GF108	GF110
Launch date	22 February 2011	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	604	605
Price now	$275.14	$235.95
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	3.18	10.17
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	96	384
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	83.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	2600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5 ECC
Shared memory		0
Technologies
ECC (Error Correcting Code)