Quadro FX 550 vs Radeon R9 270X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)
Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2006
Release Date
Oct 2013
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
8
TMUs
80
4
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
2.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
180W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Curacao
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
Curie
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
212 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