AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6900X and NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 861 MHz
2.1x more boost clock speed: 2150 MHz vs 1038 MHz
5176.8x more texture fill rate: 688.0 GTexel/s vs 132.9 GTexel / s
2.5x more pipelines: 5120 vs 2048
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 8 GB
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3739 vs 3684
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3739 vs 3684

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 Aug 2021 vs 8 April 2016
Core clock speed	1825 MHz vs 861 MHz
Boost clock speed	2150 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Texture fill rate	688.0 GTexel/s vs 132.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	5120 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3739 vs 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3739 vs 3684

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 300 W
3.5x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 300 W
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6900X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3739

3684

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3739

3684

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W6900X	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL	141178
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3739	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3739	3684
PassMark - G2D Mark		698
PassMark - G3D Mark		7915
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		4193
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		4193

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W6900X	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Navi 21	GM204
Launch date	3 Aug 2021	8 April 2016
Place in performance rating	243	241
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2150 MHz	1038 MHz
Compute units	80
Core clock speed	1825 MHz	861 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,376 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	44.03 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	22.02 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5120	2048
Pixel fill rate	275.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	688.0 GTexel/s	132.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 W	150 Watt
Transistor count	26800 million	5,200 million
Floating-point performance		4,252 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.14x Thunderbolt	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Quad-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 W
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	120 mm 4.7 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	224.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective	7012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5