NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and NVIDIA Quadro K500M 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro K4000

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K4000

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
3.8x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 768 vs 192
3.8x better floating-point performance: 1,244 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 5616 MHz vs 1600 MHz
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2720 vs 480
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 422 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2013 vs 1 June 2012
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,244 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5616 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2720 vs 480
PassMark - G2D Mark	422 vs 184

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 810 MHz
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 80 Watt

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 810 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K4000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro K500M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2720

480

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

422

184

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K4000	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2720	480
PassMark - G2D Mark	422	184
Geekbench - OpenCL	6665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	427.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	23.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	61.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3321
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	817

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K4000	NVIDIA Quadro K500M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Kepler
Code name	GK106	GK107
Launch date	1 March 2013	1 June 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,269
Place in performance rating	877	892
Price now	$225.65
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	14.81
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,244 gflops	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	192
Texture fill rate	51.84 GTexel / s	13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	2,540 million	1,270 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	134.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5616 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory		0