NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI

  • Around 73% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 375 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 7.5 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1010 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s vs 7.5 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1010 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

  • 5.2x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 104 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 104 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 176
PassMark - G2D Mark 254
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 916
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 916

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Essentials

Architecture Curie Curie
Code name G71 G71
Launch date 20 April 2006 18 April 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $6,999
Place in performance rating not rated 1112
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 90 nm
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s 7.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 104 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 278 million 278 million
Boost clock speed 375 MHz
Pipelines 20

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 3x DVI, 1x S-Video No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 MXM-II
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
OpenGL 2.1 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 32.3 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 500 Bit
Memory clock speed 1010 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 256
Shared memory 0

Navigation

Choose a GPU

Compare videocards

Compare NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI with others

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI NVIDIA
Quadro FX 5500 SDI
vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX NVIDIA
GeForce Go 7900 GTX
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI NVIDIA
Quadro FX 5500 SDI
vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS NVIDIA
GeForce Go 7900 GS
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI NVIDIA
Quadro FX 5500 SDI
vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 560 NVIDIA
Quadro FX 560