NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 390 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 390

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 275 Watt
7x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11804 vs 10445
Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11804 vs 10445
Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 4193 vs 3353
Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 4193 vs 3353

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 April 2016 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11804 vs 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11804 vs 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4193 vs 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4193 vs 3353

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390

Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 160.0 GTexel / s vs 132.9 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
Around 20% better floating-point performance: 5,120 gflops vs 4,252 gflops
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 799 vs 698
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8928 vs 7915
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3708 vs 3684
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3708 vs 3684

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	160.0 GTexel / s vs 132.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2560 vs 2048
Floating-point performance	5,120 gflops vs 4,252 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	799 vs 698
PassMark - G3D Mark	8928 vs 7915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3708 vs 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3708 vs 3684

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

698

799

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7915

8928

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

11804

10445

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

11804

10445

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3684

3708

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3684

3708

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

4193

3353

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

4193

3353

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 390
PassMark - G2D Mark	698	799
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915	8928
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11804	10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11804	10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3684	3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684	3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	4193	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	4193	3353
Geekbench - OpenCL		44120
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		120.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3164.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		11.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		116.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		607.381
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3957

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 390
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	GM204	Grenada
Launch date	8 April 2016	18 June 2015
Place in performance rating	239	296
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$329
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	861 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	5,120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2048	2560
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s	160.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	275 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	6,200 million
Compute units		40
Stream Processors		2560
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		275 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Mantle
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.4 GB / s	384 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	512 bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore