GeForce FX 5500 and Quadro FX 5500 SDI - video card comparison

GeForce FX 5500

Quadro FX 5500 SDI

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

NV34 B1

G71

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

March 2004

April 2006

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

270 MHz

650 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

45 million

278 million

Power consumption (TDP)

-

104 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.080

15.60

Memory type

DDR

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

332 MHz

1010 MHz

Memory bandwidth

5.312 GB/s

32.32 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

3x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

9.0a

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.5 (2.1)

2.1

Shader Model

-

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A