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.

 

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
43
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 888 891
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