ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550 +682%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

0.045 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

GeForce 9400 GT PCI

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Aug 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G96C

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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