AMD FireStream 9350 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Apr 2006
FireStream
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
18
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1440
Shading Units
-
72
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.016 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
403.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
30W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
NV43
Cypress PRO GL
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
110 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
