NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 72% higher core clock speed: 861 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • 5.8x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1210 MHz
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 653
  • 33.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7915 vs 236
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 April 2016 vs 24 April 2006
Core clock speed 861 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 1210 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 698 vs 653
PassMark - G3D Mark 7915 vs 236

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

  • Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 132.9 GTexel / s
  • Around 3% lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 150 Watt
Texture fill rate 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 132.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 145 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
698
653
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7915
236
Name NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 698 653
PassMark - G3D Mark 7915 236
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 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Curie
Code name GM204 G71
Launch date 8 April 2016 24 April 2006
Place in performance rating 242 199
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $2,799

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz
Core clock speed 861 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,252 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2048
Texture fill rate 132.9 GTexel / s 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 145 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DVI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 305 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 224.4 GB / s 2x 38.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 1210 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3