Quadro 5000 vs Radeon HD 6550A

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 5000 and Radeon HD 6550A, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro 5000 stacks up against Radeon HD 6550A, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro 5000 Radeon HD 6550A
Power consumption (TDP) 152 Watt 35 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 2.5 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Quadro 5000 has 334% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6550A.
  • Quadro 5000 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6550A uses MXM-A (3.0) interface.
  • Quadro 5000 and Radeon HD 6550A have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 5000 is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon HD 6550A - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6550A is 37 MHz higher, than Quadro 5000.
  • Quadro 5000 and Radeon HD 6550A are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 5000 is 1400 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6550A.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 0−1
ultra / 1080p 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 1−2
medium / 1080p 12−14 0−1
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 5000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 2100% more, than Radeon HD 6550A.

Full Specs

  Quadro 5000 Radeon HD 6550A
Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF100 Pinewood
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 23 February 2011 7 February 2011
Pipelines 352 480
Core clock speed 513 MHz 550 MHz
Transistor count 3,100 million 627 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 22.57 13.20
Floating-point performance 722.3 gflops 624.0 gflops
Length 248 mm
Memory bus width 320 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 120.0 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 66 Mh/s
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