Quadro 500M vs FirePro D500

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro D500 with Quadro 500M, including specs and performance data.

FirePro D500
2014
3 GB GDDR5, 274 Watt
10.83
+632%

D500 outperforms 500M by a whopping 632% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking422977
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.752.94
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameTahitiGF108
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)22 February 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores153696
Core clock speed725 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate69.6011.20
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs9616

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-A (3.0)
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount3 GB1 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s28.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 10.83 1.48
Recency 18 January 2014 22 February 2011
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 35 Watt

FirePro D500 has a 631.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Quadro 500M, on the other hand, has 682.9% lower power consumption.

The FirePro D500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro 500M in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro D500 is a workstation card while Quadro 500M is a mobile workstation one.


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