ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs Quadro 2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking830not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.12no data
Power efficiency2.85no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGF106RV620
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date24 December 2010 (13 years ago)4 August 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores19240
Core clock speed625 MHz594 MHz
Number of transistors1,170 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)62 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate20.002.376
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS0.04752 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs324

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length178 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz396 MHz
Memory bandwidth41.6 GB/s6.336 GB/s

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, 2x DisplayPort2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 December 2010 4 August 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 62 Watt 30 Watt

Quadro 2000 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

ATI HD 3550, on the other hand, has 106.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 2000 and Radeon HD 3550. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 2000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 3550 is a desktop one.


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