NVIDIA Quadro P6000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P6000 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 P6000

AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P6000

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 550 MHz
25.3x more texture fill rate: 394.8 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
8x more pipelines: 3840 vs 480
20.2x better floating-point performance: 12,634 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 40 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 2 GB
5.6x more memory clock speed: 9016 MHz vs 1600 MHz
21.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15436 vs 708
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 727 vs 609

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2016 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	394.8 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 480
Floating-point performance	12,634 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	15436 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark	727 vs 609

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

7.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P6000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15436

708

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

727

609

Name	NVIDIA Quadro P6000	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark	15436	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	727	609
Geekbench - OpenCL	64167
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	194.277
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1916.09
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	17.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	31.471
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	545.751
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20035
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20035
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	8770

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro P6000	AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale 2
Code name	GP102	Pinewood
Launch date	1 October 2016	7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,999
Place in performance rating	224	225
Price now	$4,403.52
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	3.90
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	12,634 gflops	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	3840	480
Texture fill rate	394.8 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	11,800 million	627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort, DVI-D DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo	No outputs
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync II
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	267 mm
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin
Width	2" (5.1 cm)
API support
DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	9016 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	384 Bit	DDR3
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management