NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z 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: 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 TITAN Z

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 705 MHz vs 650 MHz
21.7x more texture fill rate: 338 billion / sec vs 15.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 1 GB
37.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8987 vs 242
Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 394

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 May 2014 vs 20 April 2006
Core clock speed	705 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	338 billion / sec vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8987 vs 242
PassMark - G2D Mark	656 vs 394

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

3.9x lower typical power consumption: 96 Watt vs 375 Watt
144.3x more memory clock speed: 1010 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	96 Watt vs 375 Watt
Memory clock speed	1010 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8987

242

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

656

394

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	8987	242
PassMark - G2D Mark	656	394
Geekbench - OpenCL	22732
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.419
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1261.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	7.89
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	17.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	309.857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8124
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2413
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2226
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8124
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2413
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2226
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	17055

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK110B	G71
Launch date	28 May 2014	20 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999	$2,999
Place in performance rating	395	398
Price now	$1,580	$1,840.60
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	6.46	0.17
Technical info
Boost clock speed	876 MHz
Core clock speed	705 MHz	650 MHz
CUDA cores	5760
Floating-point performance	2x 5,046 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2x 2880
Texture fill rate	338 billion / sec	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	375 Watt	96 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	Two 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	672 GB / s	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	768-bit (384-bit per GPU)	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1010 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA