NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and ATI Radeon HD 5550 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K4000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 5.9x more texture fill rate: 51.84 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 768 vs 320
  • 3.5x better floating-point performance: 1,244 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 76% higher memory clock speed: 5616 MHz vs 3200 MHz
  • 7.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2719 vs 377
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 418 vs 185
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2013 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 320
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz vs 3200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2719 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark 418 vs 185

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 80 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 39 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro K4000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2719
377
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
418
185
Name NVIDIA Quadro K4000 ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark 2719 377
PassMark - G2D Mark 418 185
Geekbench - OpenCL 6676
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 427.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 23.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 61.965
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3798
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3651
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3321
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 817

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro K4000 ATI Radeon HD 5550

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Code name GK106 Redwood
Launch date 1 March 2013 9 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $1,269
Place in performance rating 895 897
Price now $225.65
Type Workstation Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 14.81

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,244 gflops 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 768 320
Texture fill rate 51.84 GTexel / s 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 39 Watt
Transistor count 2,540 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm 165 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 134.8 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5616 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5