AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB 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 150W)

Score

Radeon Sky 500

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2006

Radeon Sky

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

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

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

NV43

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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