GeForce 505 OEM vs Quadro FX 5500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1196not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.45no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameG71GT216
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date20 April 2006 (18 years ago)17 February 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 data24
Core clock speed650 MHz615 MHz
Number of transistors278 million486 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)96 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate15.607.380
Floating-point processing powerno data0.04949 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs2412

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 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length229 mm168 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed505 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth32.32 GB/s22.4 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, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 April 2006 17 February 2013
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 96 Watt 25 Watt

505 OEM has an age advantage of 6 years, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 284% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5500 and GeForce 505 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 5500 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce 505 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
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