Quadro FX 5500 SDI and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison

Quadro FX 5500 SDI

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G71

Navi 24

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2006

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

2815 MHz

Core clock speed

650 MHz

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

104 Watt

107 Watt

Texture fill rate

15.60

180.2

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1010 MHz

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32.32 GB/s

143.9 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

3x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

N/A

2.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3