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.

AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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	500	501
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