NVIDIA Quadro 500M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro 500M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.29% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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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 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro 500M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1035 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 2.97 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF108 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 22 February 2011 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 585 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 11.20 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2688 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro 500M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-A (3.0) |
VRAM capacity and type
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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
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 and SDK 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 score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.
Send your test results of Quadro 500M.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro 500M is FirePro M5800, which is slower by 5% and lower by 19 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.
