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.

ATI Radeon X550

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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	638	640
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