Quadro K500M and FirePro M3900 - video card comparison
Quadro K500M
FirePro M3900
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N14M-Q1
Seymour XT
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
June 2012
April 2011
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
-
750 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
326.4 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
160
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.60
6.000
Memory type
DDR3 / GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
14 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
Optimus
+
-