ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 vs Quadro K500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1037not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.47no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameGK107M9
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date1 June 2012 (12 years ago)2002 (22 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 cores1925
Core clock speed850 MHz250 MHz
Boost clock speedno data250 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate13.601.000
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs164

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedmedium sized
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)AGP 4x

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s6.4 GB/s
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

Quadro K500M has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

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