Quadro 500M vs Radeon HD 7790

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro 500M and Radeon HD 7790. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Quadro 500M and Radeon HD 7790. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Main Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon HD 7790
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 85 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7790 has 142% more power consumption, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is connected by MXM-A (3.0), and Radeon HD 7790 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro 500M and Radeon HD 7790 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 500M is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon HD 7790 - with GCN 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 7790 is 300 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 7790 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7790 is 4200 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 16−18
ultra / 1080p 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 1−2 30−35
medium / 1080p 0−1 20−22
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7790 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than Quadro 500M.

Full Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon HD 7790
Architecture Fermi GCN 2.0
Code name GF108 Bonaire
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 22 February 2011 22 March 2013
Pipelines 96 896
Core clock speed 700 MHz 1000 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 11.20 56.00
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops 1,792 gflops
Length 183 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 96 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.1 6.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
CUDA 2.1
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 218 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 5.2 Mh/s
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