Quadro K500M and Mobility FireGL 7800 - video card comparison

Quadro K500M

Mobility FireGL 7800

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

N14M-Q1

M7

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Mobile workstation

Release date

June 2012

September 2005

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

AGP 4x

Boost clock speed

-

280 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

280 MHz

Floating-point performance

326.4 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

1,270 million

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

2

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

27 Watt

Texture fill rate

13.60

0.56

Memory type

DDR3 / GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 / 128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_0)

7.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.3

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

+

N/A

Optimus

+

-