Quadro P500 vs FirePro M7740

Place in performance ranking	827	640
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.14	2.54
Architecture	Terascale 1 (2008−2010)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	RV740	GP108
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	4 August 2009 (14 years ago)	14 November 2017 (6 years ago)
Current price	$255	$300

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro P500 has 1714% better value for money than ATI M7740.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	256
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1455 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1519 MHz
Number of transistors	826 million	1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	18 Watt
Texture fill rate	20.80	21.25
Floating-point performance	832.0 gflops	679.9 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro M7740 and Quadro P500 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth	54.14 GB/s	32.1 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

3x mini-DisplayPort

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	12.1
Shader Model	4.1	5.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.0.1
CUDA	no data	6.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

9−10

−122%

20
+122%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

5−6

−40%

7−8
+40%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −250%	7−8 +250%
Battlefield 5	3−4 −300%	12−14 +300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 −36.4%	14−16 +36.4%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −600%	14 +600%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −700%	8−9 +700%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −225%	12−14 +225%
Hitman 3	3−4 −200%	9−10 +200%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −167%	8−9 +167%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 −60%	8−9 +60%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −37.5%	10−12 +37.5%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −250%	7−8 +250%
Battlefield 5	3−4 −300%	12−14 +300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 −36.4%	14−16 +36.4%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −500%	12 +500%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −700%	8−9 +700%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −225%	12−14 +225%
Hitman 3	3−4 −200%	9−10 +200%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −167%	8−9 +167%
Metro Exodus	3−4 −100%	6−7 +100%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 −60%	8−9 +60%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −37.5%	10−12 +37.5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −180%	14 +180%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −250%	7−8 +250%
Battlefield 5	3−4 −300%	12−14 +300%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −300%	8 +300%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −700%	8−9 +700%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −225%	12−14 +225%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −60%	8 +60%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −75%	7−8 +75%
Hitman 3	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 −22.2%	10−12 +22.2%
Metro Exodus	0−1	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −16.7%	7−8 +16.7%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −133%	7−8 +133%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 −100%	4−5 +100%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Hitman 3	2−3 −100%	4−5 +100%
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8 −14.3%	8−9 +14.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	1−2
Far Cry 5	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%

This is how ATI M7740 and Quadro P500 compete in popular games:

Quadro P500 is 122% faster than ATI M7740 in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Far Cry New Dawn, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the Quadro P500 is 700% faster than the ATI M7740.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, Quadro P500 surpassed ATI M7740 in all 47 of our tests.

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	2.08	4.21
Recency	4 August 2009	14 November 2017
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	18 Watt