NVIDIA Quadro K500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K500M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

NVIDIA Quadro K500M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 620 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz

Launch date	1 June 2012 vs 28 June 2011
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 620 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

2.9x more texture fill rate: 39.7 billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
2.9x better floating-point performance: 952.3 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 184
4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2074 vs 480

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	39.7 billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 192
Floating-point performance	952.3 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	349 vs 184
PassMark - G3D Mark	2074 vs 480

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

184

349

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

480

2074

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
PassMark - G2D Mark	184	349
PassMark - G3D Mark	480	2074
Geekbench - OpenCL		6389
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		24.415
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		690.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		29.702
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		67.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3318
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3318

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K500M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GK107	GF114
Launch date	1 June 2012	28 June 2011
Place in performance rating	905	906
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	620 MHz
Floating-point performance	326.4 gflops	952.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	192	384
Texture fill rate	13.6 GTexel / s	39.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	1,950 million
CUDA cores		384
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
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
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	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI