NVIDIA Quadro 5000M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5000M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 16.2 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 80% better floating-point performance: 518.4 gflops vs 288 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 1 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 7.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2060 vs 266
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 426 vs 398
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 July 2010 vs 5 May 2010
Texture fill rate 16.2 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops vs 288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1792 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2060 vs 266
PassMark - G2D Mark 426 vs 398

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 405 MHz
  • 10x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 100 Watt
Core clock speed 450 MHz vs 405 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5000M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2060
266
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
426
398
Name NVIDIA Quadro 5000M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v
PassMark - G3D Mark 2060 266
PassMark - G2D Mark 426 398
Geekbench - OpenCL 23008
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5249
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5249
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7205
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7205

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 5000M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF100 M96
Launch date 27 July 2010 5 May 2010
Place in performance rating 414 395
Type Mobile workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 405 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 518.4 gflops 288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 320 320
Texture fill rate 16.2 GTexel / s 14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 10 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 514 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1792 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB / s 19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2400 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
ECC (Error Correcting Code)