NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile vs AMD FirePro W9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile and AMD FirePro W9000 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

AMD FirePro W9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 132.9 GTexel / s vs 124.8 GTexel / s
Around 6% better floating-point performance: 4,252 gflops vs 3,994 gflops
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 350 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
Around 27% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7915 vs 6138

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 April 2016 vs 14 June 2012
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s vs 124.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops vs 3,994 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915 vs 6138

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W9000

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 975 MHz vs 861 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 720 vs 698

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	975 MHz vs 861 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	720 vs 698

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W9000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

698

720

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7915

6138

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	AMD FirePro W9000
PassMark - G2D Mark	698	720
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915	6138
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11804
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4193
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4193
Geekbench - OpenCL		31775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		84.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1734.394
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		86.984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		460.234

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	AMD FirePro W9000
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM204	Tahiti
Launch date	8 April 2016	14 June 2012
Place in performance rating	239	336
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$3,999
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	861 MHz	975 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	3,994 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	2048
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s	124.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	350 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Form factor		Full Height / Full Length
Length		279 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.4 GB / s	264 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5