ATI Radeon X550 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X550 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
  • Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 51 vs 34
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 July 2005 vs 21 January 2003
Core clock speed 400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 51 vs 34

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

  • Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X550
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
51
34
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
266
266
Name ATI Radeon X550 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
PassMark - G3D Mark 51 34
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 266

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X550 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Essentials

Architecture Rage 9 Rankine
Code name RV370 NV30
Launch date 1 July 2005 21 January 2003
Place in performance rating 637 639
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 400 MHz 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 1.6 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 107 million 125 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 9.0 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type DDR DDR2