NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300 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 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 4x more texture fill rate: 11.2 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • Around 57% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 55 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 16.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 571 vs 34
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 276
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 February 2011 vs 9 August 2004
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 11.2 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 55 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 550 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 571 vs 34
PassMark - G2D Mark 365 vs 276

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
571
34
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
365
276
Name NVIDIA Quadro 500M NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300
PassMark - G3D Mark 571 34
PassMark - G2D Mark 365 276
Geekbench - OpenCL 8743

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 500M NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rankine
Code name GF108 NV38 A1
Launch date 22 February 2011 9 August 2004
Place in performance rating 605 608
Price now $275.14
Type Workstation Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 3.18
Launch price (MSRP) $599

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 350 MHz
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 96
Texture fill rate 11.2 GTexel / s 2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 55 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 135 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0a
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 550 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR