Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile vs M500M

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Aggregated performance score

Quadro M500M
2015
2GB GDDR3
3.03

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 762% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking732191
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.116.19
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code nameGM108N19E-Q1
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date15 December 2015 (8 years old)27 May 2019 (4 years old)
Current price$775 $2393

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX 3000 Mobile has 5527% better value for money than Quadro M500M.

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 cores3841920
Core clock speed1029 MHz945 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistorsno data10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate17.98198.7
Floating-point performance863.2 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro M500M and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile 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 sizelargelarge
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed4004 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
G-SYNC supportno data+

Technologies

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

Optimus+no data
VR Readyno data+
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data

API support

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

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.07.5

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 M500M 3.03
RTX 3000 Mobile 26.12
+762%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 762% 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 M500M 1173
RTX 3000 Mobile 10116
+762%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 762% in Passmark.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Quadro M500M 7959
RTX 3000 Mobile 50309
+532%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 532% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Quadro M500M 2365
RTX 3000 Mobile 19879
+741%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 741% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Quadro M500M 1595
RTX 3000 Mobile 14842
+831%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 831% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Quadro M500M 8348
RTX 3000 Mobile 91394
+995%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 995% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 11
RTX 3000 Mobile 74
+559%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 559% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 36
RTX 3000 Mobile 111
+212%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 212% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 19
RTX 3000 Mobile 114
+494%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 494% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 20
RTX 3000 Mobile 116
+478%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 478% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 21
RTX 3000 Mobile 119
+478%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 478% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 7
RTX 3000 Mobile 46
+539%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 539% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 6
RTX 3000 Mobile 82
+1244%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 1244% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01.

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01

Benchmark coverage: 3%

Quadro M500M 0
RTX 3000 Mobile 12
+2850%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 2850% in SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01.

SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 6
RTX 3000 Mobile 82
+1244%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 1244% in SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase.

SPECviewperf 12 - Maya

This part of SPECviewperf 12 workstation benchmark uses Autodesk Maya 13 engine to render a superhero energy plant static scene consisting of more than 700 thousand polygons, in six different modes.

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 11
RTX 3000 Mobile 74
+559%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 559% in SPECviewperf 12 - Maya.

SPECviewperf 12 - Catia

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 20
RTX 3000 Mobile 116
+478%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 478% in SPECviewperf 12 - Catia.

SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 36
RTX 3000 Mobile 111
+212%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 212% in SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks.

SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 19
RTX 3000 Mobile 114
+494%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 494% in SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX.

SPECviewperf 12 - Creo

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 21
RTX 3000 Mobile 119
+478%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 478% in SPECviewperf 12 - Creo.

SPECviewperf 12 - Medical

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 7
RTX 3000 Mobile 46
+539%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 539% in SPECviewperf 12 - Medical.

SPECviewperf 12 - Energy

Benchmark coverage: 2%

Quadro M500M 0.4
RTX 3000 Mobile 11.8
+2850%

RTX 3000 Mobile outperforms M500M by 2850% in SPECviewperf 12 - Energy.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD15
−533%
95
+533%
4K10−12
−780%
88
+780%

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−617%
40−45
+617%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 4−5
−1825%
77
+1825%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 45−50
Battlefield 5 7−8
−1100%
80−85
+1100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
−475%
65−70
+475%
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−617%
40−45
+617%
Far Cry 5 5−6
−1260%
65−70
+1260%
Far Cry New Dawn 4−5
−2175%
91
+2175%
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
−988%
85−90
+988%
Hitman 3 6−7
−1217%
75−80
+1217%
Horizon Zero Dawn 5−6
−1020%
55−60
+1020%
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−600%
40−45
+600%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9−10
−1011%
100
+1011%
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3
−2400%
50−55
+2400%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 4−5
−1450%
62
+1450%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 45−50
Battlefield 5 7−8
−1100%
80−85
+1100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
−475%
65−70
+475%
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−617%
40−45
+617%
Far Cry 5 5−6
−1260%
65−70
+1260%
Far Cry New Dawn 4−5
−2050%
86
+2050%
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
−988%
85−90
+988%
Hitman 3 6−7
−1217%
75−80
+1217%
Horizon Zero Dawn 5−6
−1020%
55−60
+1020%
Metro Exodus 4−5
−1000%
40−45
+1000%
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−600%
40−45
+600%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9−10
−833%
84
+833%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10
−990%
109
+990%
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3
−2400%
50−55
+2400%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 4−5
−875%
39
+875%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 45−50
Battlefield 5 7−8
−1100%
80−85
+1100%
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
−617%
40−45
+617%
Far Cry 5 5−6
−1260%
65−70
+1260%
Far Cry New Dawn 4−5
−1825%
77
+1825%
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
−988%
85−90
+988%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8
−700%
56
+700%
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3
−2400%
50−55
+2400%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−700%
40−45
+700%
Hitman 3 6−7
−633%
40−45
+633%
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−11
−250%
35−40
+250%
Metro Exodus 1−2
−2500%
24−27
+2500%
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
−1900%
20−22
+1900%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7
−483%
35−40
+483%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−2700%
27−30
+2700%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−750%
16−18
+750%
Far Cry 5 5−6
−800%
45−50
+800%
Forza Horizon 4 2−3
−2600%
50−55
+2600%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4
−967%
30−35
+967%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−950%
21−24
+950%
Hitman 3 3−4
−733%
24−27
+733%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
−113%
16−18
+113%
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
−1300%
14−16
+1300%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−1600%
16−18
+1600%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−1300%
14−16
+1300%
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 7−8
Far Cry 5 4−5
−450%
21−24
+450%
Far Cry New Dawn 6−7
−333%
24−27
+333%

This is how Quadro M500M and RTX 3000 Mobile compete in popular games:

1080p resolution:

  • RTX 3000 Mobile is 533% faster than Quadro M500M

4K resolution:

  • RTX 3000 Mobile is 780% faster than Quadro M500M

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX 3000 Mobile is 2700% faster than the Quadro M500M.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Without exception, RTX 3000 Mobile surpassed Quadro M500M in all 54 of our tests.

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 3.03 26.12
Recency 15 December 2015 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 80 Watt

The Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro M500M in performance tests.


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