AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 650 MHz
12369.2x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
7.9x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 1010 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	1257 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz vs 1010 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Around 93% lower typical power consumption: 96 Watt vs 185 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	96 Watt vs 185 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Name	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3510
PassMark - G3D Mark		242
PassMark - G2D Mark		394

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Curie
Code name	Polaris 20	G71
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	20 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$301.69	$2,999
Place in performance rating	683	398
Price now	$169.99	$1,840.60
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	62.57	0.17
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1340 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1257 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	6.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2304
Pixel fill rate	42.88 GP/s
Render output units	32
Stream Processors	2304
Texture fill rate	192.96 GTexel/s	15.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units	144
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt	96 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8000 MHz	1010 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready