Quadro P500 vs Radeon RX 480 mobile

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro P500 and Radeon RX 480 mobile. 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 RX 480 mobile. 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 P500 and Radeon RX 480 mobile are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Quadro P500 and Radeon RX 480 mobile 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 RX 480 mobile here:

Main Specs

  Quadro P500 Radeon RX 480 mobile
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 100 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors 3x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon RX 480 mobile has 233% more power consumption, than Quadro P500.
  • Quadro P500 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon RX 480 mobile uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • Radeon RX 480 mobile has 6 GB more memory, than Quadro P500.
  • Quadro P500 is used in Mobile workstations, and Radeon RX 480 mobile - in Laptops.
  • Quadro P500 is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon RX 480 mobile - with Polaris.
  • Quadro P500 and Radeon RX 480 mobile are manufactured by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 480 mobile is 2988 MHz higher, than Quadro P500.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 8−9 12−14
ultra / 1080p 5−6 7−8
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 18−20 27−30
medium / 1080p 10−11 14−16
The average gaming FPS of Radeon RX 480 mobile in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 60% more, than Quadro P500.

Full Specs

  Quadro P500 Radeon RX 480 mobile
Architecture Pascal Polaris
Code name GP108 Polaris
Type Mobile workstation Laptop
Release date 14 November 2017 1 August 2016
Pipelines 256 2304
Core clock speed 1455 MHz
Boost Clock 1519 MHz 1077 MHz
Transistor count 1,800 million 5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 21.25 155.1
Floating-point performance 679.9 gflops 4,963 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 32.1 GB/s 256.0 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12.1 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.1 6.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.1.0.1 1.2.131
CUDA 6.1
Laptop size large large
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