Quadro 500M vs Radeon HD 6790

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 500M and Radeon HD 6790, 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 Quadro 500M stacks up against Radeon HD 6790, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon HD 6790
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 150 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6790 has 328% more power consumption, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is connected by MXM-A (3.0), and Radeon HD 6790 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro 500M and Radeon HD 6790 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 500M is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon HD 6790 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6790 is 140 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M and Radeon HD 6790 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 500M is 750 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6790.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 7−8
ultra / 1080p 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 18−20
medium / 1080p 0−1 9−10
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6790 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1800% more, than Quadro 500M.

Full Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon HD 6790
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF108 Barts
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 22 February 2011 4 April 2011
Pipelines 96 800
Core clock speed 700 MHz 840 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 11.20 33.60
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops 1,344.0 gflops
Length 198 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 134.4 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.1
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 122 Mh/s
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