AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 186W)

Score

Radeon HD 6930

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Apr 2006

Northern Islands

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

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

186W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

NV43

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

389 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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