
Quadro M500M and FirePro M5950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro M500M vs FirePro M5950
Quadro M500M
1198
FirePro M5950
1353
Quadro M500M
FirePro M5950
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM108
Whistler-XT
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
December 2015
April 2011
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
-
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
480
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.98
17.40
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4004 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
57 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
5.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-