Quadro 500M vs 600

Place in performance ranking	960	937
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.11	0.06
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF108	GF108
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	13 December 2010 (13 years ago)	22 February 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	no data
Current price	$118 (0.7x MSRP)	$58

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro 600 has 83% 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	96	96
Core clock speed	640 MHz	700 MHz
Number of transistors	585 million	585 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	10.24	11.20
Floating-point performance	245.76 gflops	268.8 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro 600 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.

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	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	DDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 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

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	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.

Quadro 600 1.38

Quadro 500M 1.47
+6.5%

500M outperforms 600 by 7% 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%

Quadro 600 534

Quadro 500M 570
+6.7%

500M outperforms 600 by 7% in Passmark.