NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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, 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 M5500 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 861 MHz vs 675 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 132.9 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
4.9x better floating-point performance: 4,252 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 566
5.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7915 vs 1373

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 April 2016 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	861 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 640
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	698 vs 566
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

698

566

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7915

1373

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G2D Mark	698	566
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915	1373
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4193
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4193

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM204	Heathrow
Launch date	8 April 2016	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	255	257
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	861 MHz	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	640
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.4 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0