Radeon R9 295X2 vs Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 500W)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Apr 2006
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
2816
Shading Units
-
176
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
30W
900 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
NV43
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.3
Shader Model
3.0
