Mobility FireGL 7800 vs Quadro K500M

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1002not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.61no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameN14M-Q1M7
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date1 June 2012 (12 years ago)29 September 2005 (18 years ago)
Current price$19.95 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

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 cores1922
Core clock speed850 MHz280 MHz
Boost clock speedno data280 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt27 Watt
Texture fill rate13.600.56
Floating-point performance326.4 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Quadro K500M and Mobility FireGL 7800 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.

Laptop sizemedium sizedmedium sized
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)AGP 4x

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 typeDDR3 / GDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed1800 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s6.4 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+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA+no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2012 29 September 2005
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 27 Watt

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