NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GF108 G73
GPU variant N12M-Q3
Architecture Fermi Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 585 million 177 million
Die size 116 mm² 125 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Feb 22nd, 2011 Mar 13th, 2006
Generation Quadro Mobile (x000M) Quadro FX Mobile (x500M)
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 26 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor Quadro FX Mobile Quadro FX Go

Clocks

GPU clock 700 MHz 480 MHz
Shader clock 1400 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 28.80 GB/s 16.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 96
TMUs 16 12
ROPs 4 8
SM count 2
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 256 KB
Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 5

Performance

Pixel rate 2.800 GPixel/s 3.840 GPixel/s
Texture rate 11.20 GTexel/s 5.760 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 268.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 22.40 GFLOPS (1:12)
Vertex rate 600.0 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module
TDP 35 W 35 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 2.1
Shader model 5.1 3.0

Other Features

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