Quadro FX 550 and GeForce FX 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 550 vs GeForce FX 5500
Quadro FX 550
65
GeForce FX 5500
8
Quadro FX 550
GeForce FX 5500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
NV43 A2
NV34 B1
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2006
March 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
360 MHz
270 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
146 million
45 million
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
2.880
1.080
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
332 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
5.312 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0a
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A