ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250 +9%

0.387 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

GeForce GTS 250

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Mar 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

320

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.23 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.93 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

387.1 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G92B

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

G92-428-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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