AMD FirePro W5100 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 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 W5100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

FirePro W5100

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Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Mar 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

44.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1428 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

89.28 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

NV43

Bonaire PRO GL

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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