NVIDIA Quadro P500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P500 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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 P500

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P500

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 2 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
66.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1652 vs 25
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 234

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2018 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	1455 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1652 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark	239 vs 234

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1652

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

239

234

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P500	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	1652	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	239	234
Geekbench - OpenCL	6366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2622
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P500	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Curie
Code name	GP108	C61
Launch date	5 January 2018	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	785	783
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1519 MHz
Core clock speed	1455 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	679.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	256
Texture fill rate	21.25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12_1	9.0c
Vulkan
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	32.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
Multi Monitor