Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics vs Quadro K500M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1037not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.47no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGK107Spectre SL
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 June 2012 (12 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 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 cores192256
Core clock speed850 MHz626 MHz
Boost clock speedno data847 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt17 Watt
Texture fill rate13.6010.02
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS0.3205 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1616

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 sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)IGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sno data
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

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)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan+1.2.170
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2012 17 September 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 17 Watt

R5 Mobile Graphics has an age advantage of 2 years, and 105.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K500M and Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K500M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R5 Mobile Graphics is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K500M
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