Quadro 500M vs Radeon E8860

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro 500M and Radeon E8860. 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 E8860. 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.
Quadro 500M
Radeon E8860

Main Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon E8860
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 37 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 4x mini-DisplayPort
 
  • Radeon E8860 has 5% more power consumption, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is connected by MXM-A (3.0), and Radeon E8860 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon E8860 has 1 GB more memory, than Quadro 500M.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 500M is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon E8860 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro 500M is 125 MHz higher, than Radeon E8860.
  • Quadro 500M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon E8860 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon E8860 is 2700 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.

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 E8860 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1800% more, than Quadro 500M.

Full Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon E8860
Architecture Fermi GCN 1.0
Code name GF108 Venus
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 22 February 2011 25 January 2014
Pipelines 96 640
Core clock speed 700 MHz 575 MHz
Boost Clock 625 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 11.20 25.00
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 72 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 5.1 5.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
CUDA 2.1
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