NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 2

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Redwood

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

Celsius

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

39W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

1.5

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

Shader Model

5.0

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