Radeon RX Vega 11 Mobile vs Quadro FX 5500 SDI

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
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameG71Picasso
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)22 October 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,999 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 coresno data704
Core clock speed650 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Number of transistors278 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)104 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate15.6061.60
Floating-point processing powerno data1.971 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2444

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 1.0 x16IGP
Length229 mmno data
Width3-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed505 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32.32 GB/sno data

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 Connectors3x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2006 22 October 2019
Chip lithography 90 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 104 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 11 Mobile has an age advantage of 13 years, a 542.9% more advanced lithography process, and 593.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5500 SDI and Radeon RX Vega 11 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 5500 SDI is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX Vega 11 Mobile is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 Mobile
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