Quadro FX 550 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 240 OEM 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 50W)
Radeon R5 240 OEM 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2006
Release Date
Nov 2013
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
780 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
-
Shading Units
384
8
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
2.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.72 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
599.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
37.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Oland
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.1