NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R7 M380

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile and AMD Radeon R7 M380 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, 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 R7 M380

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 915 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 132.9 GTexel / s vs 36.6 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
3.6x better floating-point performance: 4,252 gflops vs 1,171 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
7x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 534
4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7915 vs 1669

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 April 2016 vs 5 May 2015
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz vs 915 MHz
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s vs 36.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 640
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops vs 1,171 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	698 vs 534
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915 vs 1669

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M380

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 861 MHz

Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 861 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M380

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

698

534

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7915

1669

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R7 M380
PassMark - G2D Mark	698	534
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915	1669
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 R7 M380
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM204	Tropo
Launch date	8 April 2016	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	239	240
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R7 300 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	915 MHz
Core clock speed	861 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	1,171 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	640
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s	36.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	1,500 million
Compute units		10
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Mantle
OpenCL		Not Listed
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.4 GB / s	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore