Quadro2 MXR Low Profile vs Radeon RX 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking246not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.43no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameNavi 14NV11 B2
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)25 July 2000 (24 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 cores1408no data
Core clock speedno data200 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,400 million20 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattno data
Texture fill rate162.40.8
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs884

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 4.0 x16AGP 4x
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-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 typeGDDR6SDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz183 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s2.928 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)7.0
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 25 July 2000
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 7 nm 180 nm

RX 5500 has an age advantage of 19 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 and Quadro2 MXR Low Profile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 is a desktop card while Quadro2 MXR Low Profile is a workstation one.


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