Quadro 500M vs Radeon R6 Kaveri

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro 500M and Radeon R6 Kaveri. 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 R6 Kaveri. 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.

Radeon R6 Kaveri is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon R6 Kaveri is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R6 Kaveri here:

Main Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon R6 Kaveri
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Memory type DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Quadro 500M is used in Desktops, and Radeon R6 Kaveri - in Laptops.
  • Quadro 500M is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon R6 Kaveri - with GCN 1.1.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro 500M is 167 MHz higher, than Radeon R6 Kaveri.
  • Quadro 500M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R6 Kaveri - by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 1−2
medium / 1080p 0−1 0−1
Quadro 500M and Radeon R6 Kaveri have the same average FPS in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Full Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon R6 Kaveri
Architecture Fermi GCN 1.1
Code name GF108 Kaveri
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 22 February 2011 4 June 2014
Pipelines 96 384
Core clock speed 700 MHz 533 MHz
Boost Clock 654 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 2410 Million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 11.20
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 12 (11_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0), Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.1
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.1
Laptop size medium sized
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