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    Quadro P500 vs Radeon R9 M290X

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro P500 and Radeon R9 M290X. 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 P500 and Radeon R9 M290X. 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.
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    Quadro P500 and Radeon R9 M290X are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Quadro P500 and Radeon R9 M290X are only used in laptop graphics. They have 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 or Radeon R9 M290X here:

    Quadro P500 Laptops
    Radeon R9 M290X Laptops

    Main Specs

      Quadro P500 Radeon R9 M290X
    Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 100 Watt
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors None None
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors 3x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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    • Radeon R9 M290X has 233% more power consumption, than Quadro P500.
    • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
    • Radeon R9 M290X has 2 GB more memory, than Quadro P500.
    • Quadro P500 is used in Mobile workstations, and Radeon R9 M290X - in Laptops.
    • Quadro P500 is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon R9 M290X - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Quadro P500 is 605 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 M290X.
    • Quadro P500 is manufactured by 14 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 M290X - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Quadro P500 is 3812 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 M290X.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 8−9 16−18
    ultra / 1080p 5−6 10−11
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
    4K / 2160p − 4−5
    low / 720p 18−20 30−35
    medium / 1080p 10−11 20−22
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 M290X in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 100% more, than Quadro P500.

    Full Specs

      Quadro P500 Radeon R9 M290X
    Architecture Pascal GCN
    Code name GP108 Neptune
    Type Mobile workstation Laptop
    Release date 14 November 2017 7 January 2014
    Pipelines 256 1280
    Core clock speed 1455 MHz 850 MHz
    Boost Clock 1519 MHz 900 MHz
    Transistor count 1,800 million 2,800 million
    Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 21.25 72.00
    Floating-point performance 679.9 gflops 2,304 gflops
    Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1200 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 32.1 GB/s 153.6 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 12.1
    Shader Model 5.1 5.1
    OpenGL 4.6 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2 Not Listed
    Vulkan 1.1.0.1
    CUDA 6.1
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0 x16
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 300 Mh/s
    Laptop size large large
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    DualGraphics +
    ZeroCore +
    Switchable graphics +
    Mantle +
    Compute units 20
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