NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

30W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

NV43

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

8 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

601 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

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI FirePro V5800

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs MTT S10

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Intel Arc A380

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 4570 Rebrand

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA PG506 242

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 560D

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI FireMV 2400 PCI

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early