NVIDIA Quadro K500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 16% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 732 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 210 Watt

Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 29 November 2011
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 732 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 210 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

3x more texture fill rate: 41.0 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
2.3x more pipelines: 448 vs 192
4x better floating-point performance: 1,311.7 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 1 GB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 3800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Texture fill rate	41.0 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,311.7 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	1280 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
PassMark - G2D Mark	184
PassMark - G3D Mark	480
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		34.324
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1181.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.978
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		58.37
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		121.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4590
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2133
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3333
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4590
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2133
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3333
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4197

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GK107	GF110
Launch date	1 June 2012	29 November 2011
Place in performance rating	887	888
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$289
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	732 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops	1,311.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	192	448
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	41.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	210 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1280 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	152.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	3800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0