AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 274W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2006
FirePro
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
30W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
NV43
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
