NVIDIA GeForce 840M
VS
NVIDIA Quadro P500
NVIDIA GeForce 840M
VS
NVIDIA Quadro P500

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

627
Place in performance rating
527
Maxwell
Architecture
Pascal
GM108
Code name
GP108
Laptop
Type
Mobile workstation
12 March 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
14 November 2017 (4 years ago)
$743
Price now
$300
0.18
Value for money
6.15
N15S-GT
GPU code name
GP108
Laptop
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
256
1029 MHz
Core clock speed
1455 MHz
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
1519 MHz
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Transistor count
1,800 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
33 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
17.98
Texture fill rate
21.25
863.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
679.9 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
1124 MHz
Boost clock speed
1519 MHz
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Number of transistors
1,800 million
33 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
30 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
None
medium sized
Laptop size
large
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500 can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
2000 MHz
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
16.02 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
32.1 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
3x mini-DisplayPort

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500 is the additional functionality.

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Multi Monitor
+
2.0
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
6.1
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
GameWorks
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX 12_1
4.5
OpenGL
no data
1.1.126
Vulkan
1.1.0.1
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 840M and NVIDIA Quadro P500 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 840M or NVIDIA Quadro P500 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
NVIDIA Quadro P500
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
NVIDIA Quadro P500
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
NVIDIA Quadro P500
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
NVIDIA Quadro P500
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 840M
NVIDIA Quadro P500
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 840M

More pipelines (384 vs 256)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro P500

3.28% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($300 vs $743)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

Less power consumption (30 Watt vs 33 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (32.1 GB/s vs 16.02 GB/s)

Multi Monitor

So, NVIDIA GeForce 840M or NVIDIA Quadro P500?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA Quadro P500 .

NVIDIA GeForce 840M versus NVIDIA Quadro P500 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 840M
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro P500