AMD Radeon HD 6550D vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6550D and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550D

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 400 vs 240
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 131 vs 80
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 June 2011 vs 11 November 2008
Pipelines 400 vs 240
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 131 vs 80
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 vs 3319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 vs 3319

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 610 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1210 vs 401
  • 13.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18229 vs 1316
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 610 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1210 vs 401
Geekbench - OpenCL 18229 vs 1316

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6550D
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
401
1210
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
131
80
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1316
18229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
3319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
3319
Name AMD Radeon HD 6550D NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
PassMark - G3D Mark 401 1210
PassMark - G2D Mark 131 80
Geekbench - OpenCL 1316 18229
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 3319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 3319

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6550D NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Llano GT200B
Launch date 30 June 2011 11 November 2008
Place in performance rating 1237 1240
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $3,499
Price now $178.89
Value for money (0-100) 8.02

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 610 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 400 240
Transistor count 1000 Million 1,400 million
Floating-point performance 622.1 gflops
Texture fill rate 48.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 189 Watt

API support

DirectX 11 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 102.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin