NVIDIA Quadro M500M vs AMD Radeon R5 A330

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M500M and AMD Radeon R5 A330 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro M500M

AMD Radeon R5 A330

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
Around 31% better floating-point performance: 863.2 gflops vs 659.2 gflops

Launch date	27 April 2016 vs 21 October 2015
Pipelines	384 vs 320
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops vs 659.2 gflops

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 A330

Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 20.6 GTexel / s vs 17.98 GTexel / s
3.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 20041 vs 6069

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 1029 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s vs 17.98 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	20041 vs 6069

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 A330

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

6069

20041

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M500M	AMD Radeon R5 A330
PassMark - G3D Mark	1163
PassMark - G2D Mark	180
Geekbench - OpenCL	6069	20041
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2174
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2174
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1729
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1729
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3122
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3122

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M500M	AMD Radeon R5 A330
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM108	Exo
Launch date	27 April 2016	21 October 2015
Place in performance rating	1092	1094
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	1030 MHz
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops	659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	320
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s	20.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt
Transistor count		1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Shader Model	5.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
nView Display Management
Optimus