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.

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

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	45563
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	404	402
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