
Quadro 500M and FirePro M5800 - video card comparison
Quadro 500M
FirePro M5800
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF108
Madison
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
February 2011
March 2010
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
700 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
268.8 gflops
520.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
400
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.20
13.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A