NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

NV43

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

3.0

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