Quadro P500 vs Radeon R7 A360

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro P500 and Radeon R7 A360, 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 P500 stacks up against Radeon R7 A360, check out specs charts below.

Quadro P500 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Quadro P500 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 Quadro P500 here:

Main Specs

  Quadro P500 Radeon R7 A360
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 3x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Quadro P500 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon R7 A360 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Quadro P500 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon R7 A360.
  • Quadro P500 is used in Mobile workstations, and Radeon R7 A360 - in Desktops.
  • Quadro P500 is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon R7 A360 - with GCN 3.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro P500 is 730 MHz higher, than Radeon R7 A360.
  • Quadro P500 is manufactured by 14 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 A360 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro P500 is 5009 MHz higher, than Radeon R7 A360.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 8−9 0−1
ultra / 1080p 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 18−20 1−2
medium / 1080p 10−11 0−1
The average gaming FPS of Quadro P500 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1800% more, than Radeon R7 A360.

Full Specs

  Quadro P500 Radeon R7 A360
Architecture Pascal GCN 3.0
Code name GP108 Meso
Type Mobile workstation Desktop
Release date 14 November 2017 5 May 2015
Pipelines 256 384
Core clock speed 1455 MHz 725 MHz
Boost Clock 1519 MHz 980 MHz
Transistor count 1,800 million 1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 21.25 23.52
Floating-point performance 679.9 gflops 864.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 3.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth 32.1 GB/s 57.6 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12.1 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.1 6.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.1.0.1 1.2
CUDA 6.1
Laptop size large
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