NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 104 Watt
Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1010 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 104 Watt
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1010 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
PassMark - G2D Mark		264
PassMark - G3D Mark		270

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
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	625
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	104 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		500 MHz
Pipelines		24
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	3x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
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	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	1010 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	256
Shared memory		0