Quadro FX 5500 and GeForce 8800 GTS 640 - video card comparison
Quadro FX 5500
GeForce 8800 GTS 640
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G71
G80
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2006
November 2006
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
513 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
96
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
143 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
24.62
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
640 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
1010 MHz
1584 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32.32 GB/s
63.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A