Quadro FX 4800 vs Radeon HD 6550A

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro FX 4800 and Radeon HD 6550A. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Quadro FX 4800 and Radeon HD 6550A. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
Quadro FX 4800
Radeon HD 6550A

Main Specs

  Quadro FX 4800 Radeon HD 6550A
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 35 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video No outputs
 
  • Quadro FX 4800 has 328% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6550A uses MXM-A (3.0) interface.
  • Quadro FX 4800 has 1534 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6550A - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro FX 4800 is 52 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6550A - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 4800 and Radeon HD 6550A is 1600 MHz.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 0−1
ultra / 1080p 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 12−14 1−2
medium / 1080p 3−4 0−1
The average gaming FPS of Quadro FX 4800 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1200% more, than Radeon HD 6550A.

Full Specs

  Quadro FX 4800 Radeon HD 6550A
Architecture Tesla 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GT200B Pinewood
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 11 November 2008 7 February 2011
Pipelines 192 480
Core clock speed 602 MHz 550 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million 627 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 38.53 13.20
Floating-point performance 462.3 gflops 624.0 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.0 5.0
OpenGL 3.3 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 1.3