NVIDIA Quadro M500M vs ATI Radeon 9100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M500M and ATI Radeon 9100 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

ATI Radeon 9100

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 0 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 250 MHz
9x more texture fill rate: 17.98 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
3.6x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 500 MHz
195.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1171 vs 6
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 181 vs 163

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 April 2016 vs 1 April 2003
Core clock speed	1029 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1171 vs 6
PassMark - G2D Mark	181 vs 163

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9100

Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 30 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 30 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M500M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1171

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

181

163

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M500M	ATI Radeon 9100
PassMark - G3D Mark	1171	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	181	163
Geekbench - OpenCL	6099
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	ATI Radeon 9100
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 7
Code name	GM108	R200
Launch date	27 April 2016	1 April 2003
Place in performance rating	1084	1081
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	17.98 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	28 Watt
Transistor count		60 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12	8.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.4
Shader Model	5.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
nView Display Management
Optimus