NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M and NVIDIA GeForce 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 - 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 550M

  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 84 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 84 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

  • Around 35% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 480 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 5.76 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s vs 5.76 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

Name NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 388
PassMark - G2D Mark 165
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1015
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1015

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550M NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

Essentials

Architecture Curie Curie
Code name G73 G71
Launch date 13 March 2006 9 March 2006
Place in performance rating not rated 1332
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 480 MHz 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 90 nm
Texture fill rate 5.76 GTexel / s 15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 84 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 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 16 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3

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