Quadro FX 550 vs GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 148W)
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2006
Release Date
Sep 2014
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Shading Units
1664
8
TMUs
104
4
ROPs
56
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
2.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
148W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
GM204
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Curie
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
