NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Around 47% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 44 Watt

Launch date	20 April 2006 vs 6 March 2003
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 44 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 360 MHz
Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 360 MHz
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 2.88 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800
PassMark - G3D Mark	64
PassMark - G2D Mark	325

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 550	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rankine
Code name	NV43 A2	NV30
Launch date	20 April 2006	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	506	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Core clock speed	360 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	2.88 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	44 Watt
Transistor count	146 million	125 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	198 mm	213 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.1	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR