NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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).

NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 861 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 28% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 2x 800
2.1x better floating-point performance: 4,252 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1990 MHz
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 542
7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7915 vs 1132

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 April 2016 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	861 MHz vs 625 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 1990 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	698 vs 542
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915 vs 1132

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 132.9 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 132.9 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

698

542

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7915

1132

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	698	542
PassMark - G3D Mark	7915	1132
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GM204	R700
Launch date	8 April 2016	7 November 2008
Place in performance rating	248	250
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$420
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	861 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,252 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2048	2x 800
Texture fill rate	132.9 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	224.4 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3