NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 1% higher core clock speed: 861 MHz vs 850 MHz
7.1x more texture fill rate: 132.9 GTexel / s vs 18.7 billion / sec
5.8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 352
7.1x better floating-point performance: 4,252 gflops vs 598.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
5.8x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 458
4.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7915 vs 1617

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 April 2016 vs 25 May 2010
Core clock speed	861 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s vs 18.7 billion / sec
Pipelines	2048 vs 352
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops vs 598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	698 vs 458
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915 vs 1617

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

698

458

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7915

1617

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
PassMark - G2D Mark	698	458
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915	1617
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	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Fermi
Code name	GM204	GF100
Launch date	8 April 2016	25 May 2010
Place in performance rating	241	292
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	861 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	352
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s	18.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12 API
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.4 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI