NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI vs ATI Radeon 9550 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI and ATI Radeon 9550 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI

ATI Radeon 9550 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9550 XT

Around 70% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 250 MHz
Around 70% higher texture fill rate: 1.7 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 140 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 63% higher memory clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.7 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	650 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 55 PCI	ATI Radeon 9550 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 8
Code name	NV34 B1	RV350
Launch date	31 May 2005	4 May 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	140 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	1.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt
Transistor count	45 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	1.6 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	32 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR