NVIDIA Quadro K500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 3 September 2010
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 19.7 billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 288 vs 192
Around 89% better floating-point performance: 616.3 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 413 vs 184
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1953 vs 480

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.7 billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	288 vs 192
Floating-point performance	616.3 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	413 vs 184
PassMark - G3D Mark	1953 vs 480

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

184

413

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

1953

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
PassMark - G2D Mark	184	413
PassMark - G3D Mark	480	1953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		732
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		732
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1112

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi
Code name	GK107	GF104
Launch date	1 June 2012	3 September 2010
Place in performance rating	905	907
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	1100 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops	616.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	192	288
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	19.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	1,950 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	medium sized	large
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	60.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI