NVIDIA Quadro 500M
VS
AMD Radeon VII
NVIDIA Quadro 500M
VS
AMD Radeon VII

General info

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

780
Place in performance rating
39
2.76
Value for money (0-100)
31.61
Fermi
Architecture
Vega
GF108
Code name
Vega 20
Workstation
Type
Desktop
22 February 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
7 February 2019 (2 years ago)
no data
Launch price (MSRP)
$699
$100
Price now
$53 (0.1x MSRP)
0.42
Value for money
35.81
GF108
GPU code name
Vega 20
Workstation
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

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

96
Pipelines
3840
700 MHz
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
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Boost Clock
1750 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
13,230 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
35 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
11.20
Texture fill rate
420.0
268.8 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
no data
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
585 million
Number of transistors
13,230 million
35 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
295 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

MXM-A (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
no data
Length
305 mm
no data
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin

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 Radeon VII can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
HBM2
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
28.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1024 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
no data
HDMI
+

API support

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

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro 500M and AMD Radeon VII 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 Radeon VII good for gaming.


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

Less power consumption (35 Watt vs 295 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon VII

76.07% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($53 (0.1x MSRP) vs $100)

More pipelines (3840 vs 96)

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 40 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (16 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (1024 GB/s vs 28.8 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA Quadro 500M or AMD Radeon VII?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon VII .

NVIDIA Quadro 500M versus AMD Radeon VII performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro 500M
5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score AMD Radeon VII