NVIDIA Quadro K500M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K500M and ATI Mobility Radeon X700 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 350 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 13.6 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
24x more pipelines: 192 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
7.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 480 vs 67

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 1 March 2005
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	480 vs 67

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 200 vs 184

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	200 vs 184

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K500M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X700

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

184

200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	ATI Mobility Radeon X700
PassMark - G2D Mark	184	200
PassMark - G3D Mark	480	67

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	ATI Mobility Radeon X700
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	R400
Code name	GK107	M26
Launch date	1 June 2012	1 March 2005
Place in performance rating	879	882
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	192	8
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	120 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	350 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5	128
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
PCIe