NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 148W)

Score

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

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

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

-

104

TMUs

8

56

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

NV43

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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