ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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ATI Radeon HD 5550 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1792GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.9GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM +17%

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Dec 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

448bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

192

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GT200B

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

39W

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

1.3

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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