
Quadro K500M and Mobility FireGL V5000 - video card comparison
Quadro K500M
Mobility FireGL V5000
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
N14M-Q1
M26GL
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
June 2012
February 2005
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
-
350 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
6 MHz
Floating-point performance
326.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
1,270 million
120 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
14
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
13.60
2.800
Memory type
DDR3 / GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
850 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
13.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0b (9_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
+
N/A
Optimus
+
-