Quadro FX 5500 and Arctic Sound-M - video card comparison

Quadro FX 5500

Arctic Sound-M

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Generation 12.5 (2021−2022)

GPU code name

G71

Arctic Sound

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2006

2022

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Core clock speed

650 MHz

900 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

10 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

8,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8192

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

15.60

230.4

Memory type

GDDR3

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

1010 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

32.32 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A