Radeon 550 vs Quadro FX 5500 SDI

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated609
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data4.37
Power efficiencyno data7.27
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameG71Lexa
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)20 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,999 $79

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 coresno data512
Core clock speed650 MHz1100 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1183 MHz
Number of transistors278 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)104 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate15.6037.86
Floating-point processing powerno data1.211 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs2432

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length229 mm145 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed505 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth32.32 GB/s56 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 Connectors3x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_0)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2006 20 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 104 Watt 50 Watt

Radeon 550 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 542.9% more advanced lithography process, and 108% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5500 SDI and Radeon 550. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 5500 SDI is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 550 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI
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