NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA Quadro 500M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro 500M and 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro 500M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 171W)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro 500M

0.269 TFLOPS

Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition +37%

0.369 TFLOPS

Quadro 500M

VS

Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Mar 2007

Quadro Mobile

Generation

Quadro FX

Professional

Type

Professional

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

16

96

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

24

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

96 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.40 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

368.6 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

171W

-

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G80

N12M-Q3

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.0

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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