Quadro K100M vs Quadro FX 550

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1414not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.37no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameNV43GK107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)22 August 2014 (10 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 data192
Core clock speed360 MHz850 MHz
Number of transistors146 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate2.88013.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3264 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

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 1.0 x16MXM-A (3.0)
Length198 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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s12.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.1
OpenGL2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)4.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2006 22 August 2014
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 35 Watt

FX 550 has 16.7% lower power consumption.

Quadro K100M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 550 and Quadro K100M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 550 is a workstation card while Quadro K100M is a mobile workstation one.


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