NVIDIA Quadro 500M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro 500M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.48% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro 500M sales 22 February 2011. This is a Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro 500M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 980 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 2.93 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF108 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 22 February 2011 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro 500M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro 500M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 585 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 11.20 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2688 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro 500M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-A (3.0) |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro 500M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 500M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro 500M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 2.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro 500M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro 500M is FirePro M5800, which is slower by 3% and lower by 15 positions in our ranking.
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