NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M 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 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
- Around 87% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 375 MHz
- Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 11.2 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s
- 4.8x more pipelines: 96 vs 20
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
- Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 45 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
- Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
- 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 571 vs 171
- Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 275
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 22 February 2011 vs 18 April 2006 |
Core clock speed | 700 MHz vs 375 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 11.2 GTexel / s vs 9 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 96 vs 20 |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 90 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 35 Watt vs 45 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 512 MB |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 571 vs 171 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 365 vs 275 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA Quadro 500M | NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 571 | 171 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 365 | 275 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 8743 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA Quadro 500M | NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi | Curie |
Code name | GF108 | G71 |
Launch date | 22 February 2011 | 18 April 2006 |
Place in performance rating | 605 | 602 |
Price now | $275.14 | |
Type | Workstation | Mobile workstation |
Value for money (0-100) | 3.18 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 700 MHz | 375 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 268.8 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 90 nm |
Pipelines | 96 | 20 |
Texture fill rate | 11.2 GTexel / s | 9 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 35 Watt | 45 Watt |
Transistor count | 585 million | 278 million |
Boost clock speed | 375 MHz | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-A (3.0) | MXM-II |
Laptop size | large | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 9.0c |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 2.1 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | 32.0 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 500 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 1000 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3 | 256 |
Shared memory | 0 |