NVIDIA Quadro P5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P5000 and AMD Radeon HD 6550A 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Quadro P5000

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 550 MHz
17.8x more texture fill rate: 277.3 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
4.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 480
14.2x better floating-point performance: 8,873 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2 GB
5.6x more memory clock speed: 9016 MHz vs 1600 MHz
17.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12640 vs 708
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 673 vs 609

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2016 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	277.3 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 480
Floating-point performance	8,873 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12640 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark	673 vs 609

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

2.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P5000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12640

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

673

609

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P5000	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	12640	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	673	609
Geekbench - OpenCL	52508
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	223.558
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2698.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	14.206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	140.845
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	927.006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3409
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3077
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3409
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1330

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P5000	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale 2
Code name	GP104	Pinewood
Launch date	1 October 2016	7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499
Place in performance rating	247	245
Price now	$1,699.99
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	8.38
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1733 MHz
Core clock speed	1607 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	8,873 gflops	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	480
Texture fill rate	277.3 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Display Port	1.4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Shader Model	5.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Stereo
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView
nView Display Management
Optimus