ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5550

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 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 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 57W)

Score

Radeon HD 5550

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Jan 2007

Evergreen

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

57W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

RV570

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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