NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
VS
AMD FirePro D500
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
VS
AMD FirePro D500

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and AMD FirePro D500. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
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0.27
Value for money (0-100)
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Rankine
Architecture
GCN 1.0
NV34 B1
Code name
Tahiti
Desktop
Type
Workstation
17 March 2004 (17 years ago)
Release date
18 January 2014 (7 years ago)
$36.99
Launch price (MSRP)
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$90 (2.4x MSRP)
Price now
$1100
NV34 B1
GPU code name
Tahiti
Desktop
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and AMD FirePro D500 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

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Pipelines
1536
270 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
45 million
Transistor count
4,313 million
150 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
274 Watt
1.080
Texture fill rate
69.60
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Floating-point performance
2,227 gflops
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
45 million
Number of transistors
4,313 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
274 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and AMD FirePro D500.

AGP 8x
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
152 mm
Length
279 mm
None
Supplementary power connectors
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and AMD FirePro D500 can be seen in this section.

DDR
Memory type
GDDR5
64 MB
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
384 Bit
332 MHz
Memory clock speed
5080 MHz
5.312 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
243.8 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and AMD FirePro D500, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and AMD FirePro D500. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

9.0a
DirectX
12 (11_1)
1.5 (2.1)
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 and AMD FirePro D500 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 or AMD FirePro D500 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
AMD FirePro D500
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
AMD FirePro D500
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
AMD FirePro D500
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
AMD FirePro D500
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
AMD FirePro D500
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Cheaper ($90 (2.4x MSRP) vs $1100)

More maximum RAM amount (64 MB vs 3 GB)

Advantages of AMD FirePro D500

0.19% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 150 nm)

More memory bandwidth (243.8 GB/s vs 5.312 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 or AMD FirePro D500?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD FirePro D500 .

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 versus AMD FirePro D500 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD FirePro D500