Quadro P500 vs Radeon HD 7850

Place in performance ranking	415	640
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	1.41	2.54
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	GP108
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Design	reference	no data
Release date	5 March 2012 (12 years ago)	14 November 2017 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$249	no data
Current price	$267 (1.1x MSRP)	$300

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro P500 has 80% better value for money than HD 7850.

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	1024	256
Core clock speed	no data	1455 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1519 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	18 Watt
Texture fill rate	55.04	21.25
Floating-point performance	1,761 gflops	679.9 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 7850 and Quadro P500 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.

Laptop size	no data	large
Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	210 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	32.1 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	3x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity	1	no data
HDMI	+	no data
DisplayPort support	-	no data

Technologies

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

AppAcceleration	-	no data
CrossFire	1	no data
Enduro	-	no data
FreeSync	1	no data
HD3D	-	no data
PowerTune	-	no data
TrueAudio	-	no data
ZeroCore	-	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12	12.1
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.1.0.1
Mantle	-	no data
CUDA	no data	6.1

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.

HD 7850 9.96
+136%

Quadro P500 4.22

Radeon HD 7850 outperforms Quadro P500 by 136% 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%

HD 7850 3856
+136%

Quadro P500 1632

Radeon HD 7850 outperforms Quadro P500 by 136% in Passmark.

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%

HD 7850 5210
+131%

Quadro P500 2255

Radeon HD 7850 outperforms Quadro P500 by 131% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.