ATI Radeon 9550 vs Quadro 6000 SDI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameGF100RV350
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$11,499 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores448no data
Core clock speed574 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)231 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.141.000
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPSno data
ROPs484
TMUs564

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 8x
Length248 mmno data
WidthQuad-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount6 GB64 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed747 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.4 GB/s6.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

6000 SDI has an age advantage of 7 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 6000 SDI and Radeon 9550. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 6000 SDI is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 9550 is a desktop one.


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