
Quadro FX 5600 and Quadro 500M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 5600 vs Quadro 500M
Quadro FX 5600
541
Quadro 500M
587
Quadro FX 5600
Quadro 500M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G80
GF108
Market segment
Workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
March 2007
February 2011
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
345.6 gflops
268.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
96
Power consumption (TDP)
171 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.40
11.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A