NVIDIA Quadro 500M
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M is a workstation graphics card released on February 22, 2011, built on the Fermi architecture. It has 96 shading units, 1 GB of DDR3 memory, a boost clock of 700 MHz and a 35 W board power rating. It scores 571 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.5.
Depth: 34 recorded fields, 4 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M scores 571 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 39.8% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,795), measured across 6 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 365.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro 500M averages DirectX 9 14 fps, DirectX 10 2 fps, DirectX 11 5 fps and GPU Compute 287 ops/s, across 6 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro 500M states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 1 GB of memory, a core clock of 700 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2013-05-22. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M is based on the Fermi architecture and uses the GF108 graphics processor.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M has 96 shading units, 16 texture mapping units and 4 render output units.
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro 500M. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA Quadro 500M.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M runs at a base clock of 700 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M is equipped with 1 GB of DDR3 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M has a board power rating of 35 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M was released on February 22, 2011.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.5.
Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA Quadro 500M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro 500M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro 500M.
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA Quadro 500M (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro 500M have?
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M has 1 GB of DDR3 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro 500M use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M has a board power rating of 35 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro 500M?
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M scores 571 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 39.8% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #1,795.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro 500M use?
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA Quadro 500M released?
The NVIDIA Quadro 500M was released on February 22, 2011.
Corrections to this record
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- Architecture: Fermi (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GF108 -> Fermi. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
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