Quadro FX 550 vs GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 145W)
GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 19 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock2497MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2006
Release Date
May 2025
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2280 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
30
-
Shading Units
3840
8
TMUs
120
4
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
2.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
145W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
GB206
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
Curie
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
12.0
3.0
Shader Model
6.8
