Quadro 500M vs FirePro V3900

Place in performance ranking	894	936
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.20	0.06
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Turks	GF108
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	7 February 2012 (12 years old)	22 February 2011 (13 years old)
Current price	$110	$58

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V3900 has 233% better value for money than Quadro 500M.

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

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro V3900 and Quadro 500M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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.

Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Form factor	half height / half length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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

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

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	no data	2.1

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro V3900 1.67
+13.6%

Quadro 500M 1.47

FirePro V3900 outperforms Quadro 500M by 14% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro V3900 646
+13.3%

Quadro 500M 570

FirePro V3900 outperforms Quadro 500M by 13% in Passmark.