Quadro FX 5500: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Quadro FX 5500 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.63% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 5500 sales 20 April 2006 at a recommended price of $2,999 . This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32.32 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 96 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 5500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 1156 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.01 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | G71 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 20 April 2006 (18 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,999 | |
| Current price | $150 (0.1x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX 5500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 5500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 278 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 96 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 15.60 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 5500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 229 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 5500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1010 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32.32 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 5500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro FX 5500, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 5500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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AMD equivalent
It seems that there's no AMD equivalent for Quadro FX 5500. The nearest candidate is FirePro V3900, however, it's 163% faster and higher by 256 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Quadro FX 5500:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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