AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 4 month(s) later
88.9x more texture fill rate: 256.0 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
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 20 April 2006
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

5.8x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 175 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4579
PassMark - G3D Mark		64
PassMark - G2D Mark		325

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Curie
Code name	Fiji	NV43 A2
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	20 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	502	500
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	4096
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s	2.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million	146 million
Core clock speed		360 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	152 mm	198 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore