AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 83% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 650 MHz
7897.4x more texture fill rate: 123.2 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
Around 73% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective) vs 1010 MHz

Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	123.2 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective) vs 1010 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 96 Watt vs 125 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	96 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	130.7
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2361.73
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	774.974
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
PassMark - G3D Mark		242
PassMark - G2D Mark		394

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Curie
Code name	Navi 14	G71
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	20 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	$2,999
Place in performance rating	324	430
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Price now		$1,840.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.17
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	246.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.885 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.942 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408
Pixel fill rate	44.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	123.2 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	96 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)	229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
Width	Single-slot
API support
DirectX	12.1	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)	1010 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3