NVIDIA Quadro 500M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro 500M sales 22 February 2011. This is a Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.47% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Quadro 500M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 936 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.06 | |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF108 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 22 February 2011 (13 years old) | |
| Current price | $58 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
Quadro 500M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro 500M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 585 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 11.20 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 268.8 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Quadro 500M's 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.
| Interface | MXM-A (3.0) |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro 500M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro 500M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Quadro 500M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 2.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro 500M. 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.
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%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Quadro 500M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Quadro 500M performance compared to nearest competitors among mobile workstation video cards.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro 500M is FirePro M5800, which is slower by 7% and lower by 31 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro 500M:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Quadro 500M according to our statistics.
