ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
9.6x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 96 Watt
Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1010 MHz
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 266 vs 242
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 398 vs 394

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2010 vs 20 April 2006
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 96 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1010 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	266 vs 242
PassMark - G2D Mark	398 vs 394

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

266

242

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

398

394

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	266	242
PassMark - G2D Mark	398	394

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M96	G71
Launch date	5 May 2010	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	404	407
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,999
Price now		$1,840.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.17
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	96 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1010 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2	GDDR3
Shared memory	0