AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 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: 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 41.1x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 24x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 128 MB
  • Around 72% higher memory clock speed: 1375 MHz vs 800 MHz
Launch date 22 December 2011 vs 20 April 2006
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

  • 10x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 300 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Name AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
Geekbench - OpenCL 34541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 84.413
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1390.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.336
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 101.929
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 481.76
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2276
PassMark - G3D Mark 64
PassMark - G2D Mark 325

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Curie
Code name Tahiti NV43 A2
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date 22 December 2011 20 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $549
Place in performance rating 501 502
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 925 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 2048
Stream Processors 2048
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s 2.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 146 million
Core clock speed 360 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 274 mm 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin None

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 264 GB/s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync