Quadro 500M vs Radeon RX 5600M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 500M and Radeon RX 5600M, 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 500M stacks up against Radeon RX 5600M, check out specs charts below.

Radeon RX 5600M is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon RX 5600M 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 RX 5600M here:

Main Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon RX 5600M
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 150 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3 GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Radeon RX 5600M has 328% more power consumption, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is connected by MXM-A (3.0), and Radeon RX 5600M uses PCIe 4.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon RX 5600M has 5 GB more memory, than Quadro 500M.
  • Quadro 500M is used in Desktops, and Radeon RX 5600M - in Laptops.
  • Quadro 500M is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon RX 5600M - with Navi / RDNA.
  • Quadro 500M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 5600M - by 7 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 5600M is 10200 MHz higher, than Quadro 500M.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 35−40
ultra / 1080p 21−24
QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 1−2 60−65
medium / 1080p 0−1 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Radeon RX 5600M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 6100% more, than Quadro 500M.

Full Specs

  Quadro 500M Radeon RX 5600M
Architecture Fermi Navi / RDNA
Code name GF108 Navi 10
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 22 February 2011 7 January 2020
Pipelines 96 2304
Core clock speed 700 MHz
Boost Clock 1265 MHz
Transistor count 585 million 10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 7 nm
Texture fill rate 11.20 182.2
Floating-point performance 268.8 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB/s 288.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 5.1 6.5
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2
CUDA 2.1
Laptop size medium sized
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