NVIDIA Quadro M500M
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M is a workstation graphics card released on April 27, 2016, built on the Maxwell architecture. It has 2 GB of DDR3 memory, a boost clock of 1.12 GHz and a 30 W board power rating. It scores 1,178 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12.1, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 5.0.
Depth: 34 recorded fields, 8 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 7 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M scores 1,178 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 57.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,297), measured across 118 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 178.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Quadro M500M averages DirectX 9 22 fps, DirectX 10 4 fps, DirectX 11 6 fps, DirectX 12 7 fps and GPU Compute 662 ops/s, across 118 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 M500M states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 2 GB of memory, DirectX 12.1 and OpenGL 4.5, first benchmarked on 2016-03-18. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M is based on the Maxwell architecture and uses the GM108 graphics processor.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M runs at a base clock of 1.03 GHz and boosts to 1.12 GHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M is equipped with 2 GB of DDR3 memory.
Board and power
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M has a board power rating of 30 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M was released on April 27, 2016.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M supports DirectX 12.1, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.3, OpenCL 3.0 and CUDA compute capability 5.0.
Features
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 5.0Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA Quadro M500M supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M supports CUDA (Compute capability 5.0) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
Feex holds no codec support statement for the NVIDIA Quadro M500M. It does not support hardware encode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1 and decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Not supported | Not supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Not supported | Not supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Not supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA Quadro M500M (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA Quadro M500M have?
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M has 2 GB of DDR3 memory.
How much power does the NVIDIA Quadro M500M use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M has a board power rating of 30 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA Quadro M500M?
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M scores 1,178 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 57.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #1,297. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 7 fps.
Does the NVIDIA Quadro M500M support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA Quadro M500M.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA Quadro M500M?
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M has CUDA compute capability 5.0.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA Quadro M500M use?
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA Quadro M500M released?
The NVIDIA Quadro M500M was released on April 27, 2016.
Corrections to this record
After an audit, 1 empty field was filled from sources. Each change is listed with its old value, new value, rule and sources.
1 filled value
- Architecture: Maxwell (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip GM108 -> Maxwell. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724).
The audit log is public: all changes for this GPU, the corrections overview and the method.
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