NVIDIA Quadro K500M vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K500M and NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR 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

NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 3 month(s) later
7.1x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 120 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 220 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 32 MB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 300 MHz
96x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 480 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 1 February 2000
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 220 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	480 vs 5

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

35.3x more texture fill rate: 480 MTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 201 vs 184

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	480 MTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	201 vs 184

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

184

201

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
PassMark - G2D Mark	184	201
PassMark - G3D Mark	480	5

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Celsius
Code name	GK107	NV10 A3
Launch date	1 June 2012	1 February 2000
Place in performance rating	888	885
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	120 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	220 nm
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	480 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	17 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	7.0
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	300 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0