NVIDIA Quadro 500M
VS
AMD FirePro V3900
NVIDIA Quadro 500M
VS
AMD FirePro V3900

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA Quadro 500M and AMD FirePro V3900. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

780
Place in performance rating
777
2.76
Value for money (0-100)
6.37
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GF108
Code name
Turks
Workstation
Type
Workstation
22 February 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
7 February 2012 (9 years ago)
$100
Price now
$118
0.42
Value for money
0.36
GF108
GPU code name
Turks
Workstation
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA Quadro 500M and AMD FirePro V3900 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
480
700 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
716 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
35 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
199 Watt
11.20
Texture fill rate
15.60
268.8 gflops
Floating-point performance
624.0 gflops
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
585 million
Number of transistors
716 million
35 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
199 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA Quadro 500M and AMD FirePro V3900.

MXM-A (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Length
168 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
no data
Form factor
half height / half length

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 Quadro 500M and AMD FirePro V3900 can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR3
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
28.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
28 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA Quadro 500M and AMD FirePro V3900, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
no data
Dual-link DVI support
1
no data
HD сomponent video output
1
no data
DisplayPort count
1

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA Quadro 500M and AMD FirePro V3900. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro 500M and AMD FirePro V3900 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 Quadro 500M or AMD FirePro V3900 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA Quadro 500M
AMD FirePro V3900
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA Quadro 500M
AMD FirePro V3900
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA Quadro 500M
AMD FirePro V3900
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA Quadro 500M
AMD FirePro V3900
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA Quadro 500M
AMD FirePro V3900
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 Quadro 500M

Cheaper ($100 vs $118)

Less power consumption (35 Watt vs 199 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (28.8 GB/s vs 28 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD FirePro V3900

0.2% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (480 vs 96)

So, NVIDIA Quadro 500M or AMD FirePro V3900?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD FirePro V3900 .

NVIDIA Quadro 500M versus AMD FirePro V3900 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro 500M
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