NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 videocard review

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Quadro FX 5500 videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 20 April 2006. At the time of release, the videocard cost $2,999. The videocard is designed for workstation-computers and based on Curie microarchitecture codenamed G71.

Core clock speed - 650 MHz. Texture fill rate - 15.6 GTexel / s. Manufacturing process technology - 90 nm. Transistors count - 278 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 96 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 256 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1010 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 32.3 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38582
242
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
394
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 242
PassMark - G2D Mark 394

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Curie
Code name G71
Launch date 20 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $2,999
Place in performance rating 402
Price now $1,840.60
Type Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 0.17

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 96 Watt
Transistor count 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 9.0c
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1010 MHz
Memory type GDDR3