ATI FireGL V7600 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FireGL V7600 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 V7600 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 127W)
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
9.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
384.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
127W
TDP
30W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
NV43
R600 GL
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
