ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 69W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550 +36%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Nov 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

69W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GT215

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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