ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT 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 7 months late

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 125W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550 +4%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

GeForce 9800 GT

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Jul 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

320

Shading Units

112

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

125W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G92B

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

G92-280-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

260 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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