GeForce GTX 950 LP and Quadro P500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Quadro P500
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GM206
GP108
Market segment
Desktop
Mobile workstation
Release date
March 2016
November 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1519 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
1455 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
679.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
256
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
57.02
21.25
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.8 GB/s
32.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
3x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
12.1
CUDA
5.2
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.0.1