AMD Radeon Pro W5500M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 54% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 8179.5x more texture fill rate: 127.6 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
  • Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 96 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 49% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1010 MHz
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 96 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1010 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500M NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943
Geekbench - OpenCL 45724
PassMark - G3D Mark 242
PassMark - G2D Mark 394

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Curie
Code name Navi 14 G71
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 20 April 2006
Place in performance rating 400 398
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $2,999
Price now $1,840.60
Value for money (0-100) 0.17

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1450 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 255.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.166 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.083 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408
Pixel fill rate 46.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s 15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 96 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Length 229 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 1010 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR3