Quadro P500 vs Radeon R7 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated681
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.38
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameSpectreGP108
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date11 January 2014 (10 years ago)5 January 2018 (6 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 cores512256
Core clock speed720 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed980 MHz1518 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate31.3624.29
Floating-point processing power1.004 TFLOPS0.7772 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs3216

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGPno data
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1253 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data40.1 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.06.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2014 5 January 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 18 Watt

R7 Graphics has 20% lower power consumption.

Quadro P500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 Graphics and Quadro P500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 Graphics is a desktop card while Quadro P500 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
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