NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +206%

1.078 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

39W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Redwood

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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