NVIDIA Quadro K500M vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K500M and ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
48x more pipelines: 192 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
11.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 480 vs 43

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 30 August 2006
Pipelines	192 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	480 vs 43

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 197 vs 184

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	197 vs 184

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K500M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

184

197

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
PassMark - G2D Mark	184	197
PassMark - G3D Mark	480	43

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler
Code name	GK107
Launch date	1 June 2012	30 August 2006
Place in performance rating	887	890
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	192	4
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5
Shared memory	0	1