NVIDIA Quadro 500M: specs and benchmarks

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 1.8 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 performance ranking	986
Place by popularity	not in top-100
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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	700 MHz	of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	585 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
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 performance	0.2688 gflops	of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada)

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	1800 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
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 performance 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.

Quadro 500M 1.48

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Quadro 500M 570

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Quadro 500M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.