Quadro T2000 Mobile vs GeForce FX 5500 PCI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated261
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.95
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV34 B1TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date17 March 2004 (20 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1024
Core clock speed270 MHz1575 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors45 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rate1.080114.2
Floating-point processing powerno data3.656 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0a12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 March 2004 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm

T2000 Mobile has an age advantage of 15 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5500 PCI and Quadro T2000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5500 PCI is a desktop card while Quadro T2000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 PCI
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