NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
3x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 602 MHz
Around 50% better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 116 Watt vs 150 Watt

Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 11 November 2008
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 602 MHz
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	116 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Around 34% higher texture fill rate: 38.5 GTexel / s vs 28.8 billion / sec
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s vs 28.8 billion / sec
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	1557
PassMark - G2D Mark	382
Geekbench - OpenCL	5750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3322
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	322

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GF116	GT200B
Launch date	15 March 2011	11 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$149	$1,799
Place in performance rating	1019	not rated
Price now	$287.59
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	7.49
Technical info
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	602 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops	462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192	192
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec	38.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	116 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	8.25" (21 cm)	267 mm
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.2	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	98.4 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI