AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA Quadro P4000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA Quadro P4000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • 228.3x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 165.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 16 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Launch date 20 Apr 2017 vs 6 February 2017
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel/s vs 165.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 100 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P4000

  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1202 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 1183 MHz
  • 3.5x more pipelines: 1792 vs 512
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 4.3x more memory clock speed: 7604 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
  • Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 814 vs 463
  • 5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11623 vs 2027
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1202 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed 1480 MHz vs 1183 MHz
Pipelines 1792 vs 512
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 7604 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 814 vs 463
PassMark - G3D Mark 11623 vs 2027

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro P4000

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
463
814
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2027
11623
Name AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA Quadro P4000
PassMark - G2D Mark 463 814
PassMark - G3D Mark 2027 11623
Geekbench - OpenCL 42289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 152.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1590.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.365
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 45.977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 751.626
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15267
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15267
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4904

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA Quadro P4000

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Pascal
Code name Lexa GP104
Launch date 20 Apr 2017 6 February 2017
Place in performance rating 285 286
Launch price (MSRP) $815
Price now $799.99
Type Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 17.17

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1183 MHz 1480 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 1202 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines 512 1792
Pixel fill rate 18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel/s 165.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 2200 million 7,200 million
Floating-point performance 5,304 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort
Display Port 1.4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 145 mm, 5.7 inches 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 (12_0) 12
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7 (6.4) 5.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 56.00 GB/s 192 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective 7604 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Stereo
Mosaic
nView Display Management
Optimus