FirePro V7900 vs Quadro 500M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro V7900 and Quadro 500M, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro V7900 stacks up against Quadro 500M, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro V7900 Quadro 500M
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 35 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort No outputs
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  • FirePro V7900 has 331% more power consumption, than Quadro 500M.
  • FirePro V7900 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Quadro 500M uses MXM-A (3.0) interface.
  • FirePro V7900 has 1 GB more memory, than Quadro 500M.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro V7900 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Quadro 500M - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of FirePro V7900 is 25 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.
  • FirePro V7900 and Quadro 500M are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro V7900 is 3200 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−12 0−1
ultra / 1080p 6−7
QHD / 1440p 1−2 0−1
low / 720p 24−27 1−2
medium / 1080p 14−16 0−1
The average gaming FPS of FirePro V7900 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 2400% more, than Quadro 500M.

Full Specs

  FirePro V7900 Quadro 500M
Architecture TeraScale 3 Fermi
Code name Cayman GF108
Type Workstation Workstation
Release date 24 May 2011 22 February 2011
Pipelines 1280 96
Core clock speed 725 MHz 700 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 585 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 58.00 11.20
Floating-point performance 1,856.0 gflops 268.8 gflops
Length 279 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160 GB/s 28.8 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.1
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 171 Mh/s
Form factor full height / full length
StereoOutput3D +
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support +
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