AMD FirePro W9100 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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 W9100 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 275W)
Score
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
-
176
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
59.52 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
163.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.238 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
2.619 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
275W
TDP
30W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
NV43
Hawaii GL44
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
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
-
-
-
6.3
Shader Model
3.0
