Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition vs Quadro 500M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Quadro 500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Quadro 500M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (35W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
+71%
462
Quadro 500M
269
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Feb 2011
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
76.80GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
24
SM Count
2
192
Shading Units
96
64
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
192 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
14.45 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
38.53 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
462.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
57.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
35W
450 W
Suggested PSU
-
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
GF108
-
GPU Variant
N12M-Q3
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
