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.

NVIDIA Quadro K4000

ATI Radeon HD 5550

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: 2723 vs 377
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 417 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	2723 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark	417 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

2723

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

417

185

Name	NVIDIA Quadro K4000	ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark	2723	377
PassMark - G2D Mark	417	185
Geekbench - OpenCL	6660
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.437
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	427.88
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.897
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	889	890
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