Quadro 500M vs Radeon Pro 455

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro 500M and Radeon Pro 455. 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 Pro 455. 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 Pro 455 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon Pro 455 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 Pro 455 here:

Main Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon Pro 455
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 35 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Both graphics cards have the same power consumption of 35 Watt.
  • Quadro 500M is connected by MXM-A (3.0), and Radeon Pro 455 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Radeon Pro 455 has 1 GB more memory, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is used in Desktops, and Radeon Pro 455 - in Mobile workstations.
  • Quadro 500M is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon Pro 455 - with Polaris.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon Pro 455 is 155 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon Pro 455 - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon Pro 455 is 3200 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 Pro 455 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3100% more, than Quadro 500M.

Full Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon Pro 455
Architecture Fermi Polaris
Code name GF108 Polaris 11
Type Workstation Mobile workstation
Release date 22 February 2011 27 October 2016
Pipelines 96 768
Core clock speed 700 MHz 855 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 11.20 41.04
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops 1,313 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 81.28 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.1 6.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
CUDA 2.1
FreeSync +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 163 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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