ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 188W)

Score

Radeon HD 5870

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Apr 2006

Evergreen

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

188W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

NV43

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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