NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 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.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 480 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 37% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 48 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB

Core clock speed	480 MHz vs 450 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 48 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Around 88% higher texture fill rate: 10.8 GTexel / s vs 5.76 GTexel / s
Around 32% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Texture fill rate	10.8 GTexel / s vs 5.76 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		258
PassMark - G2D Mark		160

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Curie
Code name	G73	G71
Launch date	13 March 2006	9 March 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	1050
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	5.76 GTexel / s	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	48 Watt
Transistor count	177 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3