NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro FX 5500 SDI sales 20 April 2006 at a recommended price of $6,999. This is a Curie architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.51 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32.32 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a triple-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 104 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro FX 5500 SDI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | G71 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 20 April 2006 (18 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $6,999 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro FX 5500 SDI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 5500 SDI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 278 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 104 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 15.60 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 5500 SDI and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 229 mm | |
| Width | 3-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 5500 SDI: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 505 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32.32 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 5500 SDI. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 3x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro FX 5500 SDI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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