Quadro P500 vs Radeon RX 490M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated679
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data16.27
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code namePolarisGP108
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 August 2016 (8 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 coresno data256
Core clock speedno data1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1518 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data18 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.29
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7772 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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 sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1253 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data40.1 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2016 5 January 2018

Quadro P500 has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 490M and Quadro P500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 490M is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P500 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 490M
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