AMD Radeon R9 M295X vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M295X 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M295X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 723 MHz vs 360 MHz
  • 32.1x more texture fill rate: 92.54 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
  • 80.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5150 vs 64
  • 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 832 vs 325
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 November 2014 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed 723 MHz vs 360 MHz
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5150 vs 64
PassMark - G2D Mark 832 vs 325

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

  • 8.3x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 250 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M295X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5150
64
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
832
325
Name AMD Radeon R9 M295X NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
PassMark - G3D Mark 5150 64
PassMark - G2D Mark 832 325
Geekbench - OpenCL 26952
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 820.138
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 68.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 386.418
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2045
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3144
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2045
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3144

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Curie
Code name Amethyst NV43 A2
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 23 November 2014 20 April 2006
Place in performance rating 499 502
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 723 MHz 360 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 2048
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s 2.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 198 mm

API support

DirectX Not Listed 9.0c
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory type Not Listed GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz

Technologies

DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore