Quadro P500 vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated683
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.10
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameTahitiGP108
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date22 June 2012 (12 years ago)5 January 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

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 cores1792256
Core clock speed850 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz1518 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate103.624.29
Floating-point processing power3.315 TFLOPS0.7772 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs11216

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length274 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/s40.1 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 June 2012 5 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 18 Watt

HD 7950 Boost has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Quadro P500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 1011.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950 Boost and Quadro P500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950 Boost is a desktop card while Quadro P500 is a mobile workstation one.


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