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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 is a workstation graphics card. It has 1 GB of DDR2 memory, a boost clock of 650 MHz and a 96 W board power rating. It scores 242 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

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Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

1 GB

DDR2

Boost clock

n/a

650 MHz base

Board power

96 W

Performance

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 scores 242 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 26.6% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,147), measured across 19 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 394.

PassMark G3D Mark

242

Rank #2,147
Faster than 26.6% of 2,658 GPUs
19 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

As stated by PassMark

Category Workstation

Bus interface PCIe x16

Max memory 1 GB

Core clock 700 MHz

Memory clock 1050 MHz

DirectX 9.0c

OpenGL 2.1

Max TDP 96 W

First benchmarked 2009-04-27

Samples 19

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 states the PCIe x16 interface, up to 1 GB of memory, a core clock of 700 MHz, DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1, first benchmarked on 2009-04-27. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

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Codename G71

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 uses the G71 graphics processor.

Shader configuration

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Texture units (TMUs) 24

Render output units (ROPs) 16

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Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 24 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500.

Clock speeds

Base clock 650 MHz

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 runs at a base clock of 650 MHz.

Memory

Size 1 GB

Type DDR2

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 is equipped with 1 GB of DDR2 memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 has a board power rating of 96 W and it connects over PCIe x16.

Board power (TDP) 96 W

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Bus interface PCIe x16

Market

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Segment Workstation

Series Quadro

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 242

PassMark G2D 394

Rank #2,147

Samples 19

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 supports DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1.

DirectX 9.0c (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 2.1

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500.