ATI FirePro M7820 vs Quadro K500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1039not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.45no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGK107Broadway
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date1 June 2012 (12 years ago)1 May 2010 (14 years ago)

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 cores192800
Core clock speed850 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate13.6028.00
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS1.12 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs1640

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 sizemedium sizedlarge
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s64 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2012 1 May 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 50 Watt

Quadro K500M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K500M and FirePro M7820. We've got no test results to judge.


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