NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 5500 SDI sales 20 April 2006 at a recommended price of $6,999. 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 0.51 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32.32 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a triple-slot graphics 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 104 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 5500 SDI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameG71
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,999 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

Quadro FX 5500 SDI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 5500 SDI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed650 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors278 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)104 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate15.60of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs24of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 5500 SDI 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16
Length229 mm
Width3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 5500 SDI: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed505 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth32.32 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 5500 SDI. 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 Connectors3x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro FX 5500 SDI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 5500 SDI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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