GMA 500 vs Quadro FX 380M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1321not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.85no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)PowerVR SGX535 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameGT218Poulsbo
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)2 March 2008 (16 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 cores1632
Core clock speed606 MHz200 MHz
Number of transistors260 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.8480.8
Floating-point processing power0.04698 TFLOPS0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPs41
TMUs84

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 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed790 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth12.64 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)10.1
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.3ES 2.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 2 March 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

FX 380M has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 380M and GMA 500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 380M is a mobile workstation card while GMA 500 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 380M
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