ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
More VRAM (128GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Apr 2006
Rage 2
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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83 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
128MB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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1
TMUs
8
1
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
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-
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-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
30W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
NV43
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Rage 2
Architecture
Curie
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
N/A
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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Shader Model
3.0
