ATI FireGL V5600 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
120 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 89W)
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Apr 2006
FireGL
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
35.20GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
6.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
89W
TDP
30W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
NV43
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
