Quadro T500 Mobile vs ATI FirePro V7800

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated477
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data35.32
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCypressTU117
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date26 April 2010 (14 years ago)2 December 2020 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$759 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1440896
Core clock speed700 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4094.92
Floating-point processing power2.016 TFLOPS3.037 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs7256

Form factor & compatibility

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

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length254 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s80 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 April 2010 2 December 2020
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 18 Watt

T500 Mobile has an age advantage of 10 years, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 733.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V7800 and Quadro T500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V7800 is a workstation card while Quadro T500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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