NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1792GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 OEM +17%

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Dec 2009

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1008 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1792MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.9GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

33.15 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

414.7 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

51.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

39W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Redwood

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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