NVIDIA Quadro K500M
VS
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
NVIDIA Quadro K500M
VS
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA Quadro K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

861
Place in performance rating
307
Kepler
Architecture
Polaris
GK107
Code name
Polaris 23
Mobile workstation
Type
Laptop
1 June 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
10 January 2019 (2 years ago)
$19.95
Price now
$299
0.61
Value for money
15.64
N14M-Q1
GPU code name
Polaris 12
Mobile workstation
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA Quadro K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

192
Pipelines
640
850 MHz
Core clock speed
1176 MHz
no data
Boost Clock
1287 MHz
1,270 million
Transistor count
2,200 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
35 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
13.60
Texture fill rate
51.48
326.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
192
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
no data
Boost clock speed
1287 MHz
1,270 million
Number of transistors
2,200 million
35 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
50 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA Quadro K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile.

MXM-A (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
medium sized
Laptop size
large

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 K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile can be seen in this section.

DDR3 / GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
12.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA Quadro K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA Quadro K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
no data
FreeSync
+
no data
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA Quadro K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
+
Vulkan
1.2.131
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
1.2
OpenCL
2.0

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro K500M and AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 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 K500M or AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K500M
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K500M
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K500M
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K500M
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA Quadro K500M
AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile
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 K500M

Cheaper ($19.95 vs $299)

Less power consumption (35 Watt vs 50 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

16.19% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (640 vs 192)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (96 GB/s vs 12.8 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA Quadro K500M or AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile .

NVIDIA Quadro K500M versus AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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