NVIDIA Quadro 5000M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 5000M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5000M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 16.2 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 1 GB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1010 MHz
8.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2060 vs 242
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 426 vs 394

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 July 2010 vs 20 April 2006
Texture fill rate	16.2 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1792 MB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2400 MHz vs 1010 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2060 vs 242
PassMark - G2D Mark	426 vs 394

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

Around 60% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 405 MHz
Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 96 Watt vs 100 Watt

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 405 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	96 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 5000M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2060

242

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

426

394

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 5000M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	2060	242
PassMark - G2D Mark	426	394
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	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Curie
Code name	GF100	G71
Launch date	27 July 2010	20 April 2006
Place in performance rating	429	430
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,999
Price now		$1,840.60
Value for money (0-100)		0.17
Technical info
Core clock speed	405 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	518.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	16.2 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	96 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1792 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	32.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2400 MHz	1010 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
ECC (Error Correcting Code)