Quadro FX 550 vs Radeon RX 550 512SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP 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 RX 550 512SP 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1071MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2006
Release Date
Oct 2017
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1019 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1071 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
-
Shading Units
512
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.14 GPixel/s
2.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.27 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1097 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
1097 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
68.54 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
50W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
Baffin
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
Baffin LE
Curie
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
110 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
3 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.4