Quadro K500M and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB - video card comparison

Quadro K500M

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 3 GB

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

N14M-Q1

GP106

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Laptop

Release date

June 2012

June 2017

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1480 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

1265 MHz

Floating-point performance

326.4 gflops

3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

1,270 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

13.60

118.4

Memory type

DDR3 / GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12.0

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

Optimus