Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce GT 710
AMD
Radeon HD 5550
512 Mb GDDR5
Released 9 Feb 2010
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GT 710
2048 Mb DDR3
Released 27 Mar 2014
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Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 5550
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 710
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | GeForce GT 710 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Redwood (Redwood PRO2) | GK208 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 627 million | unknown |
| Shaders | 320 | 192 |
| Compute Units | 4 | 1 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | 954 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | 16 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | GeForce GT 710 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5550 | GeForce GT 710 |
|---|
| TDP | 39 watts | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Feb 2010 | 27 Mar 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 55504.40 GP/s
- GeForce GT 7103.82 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 55508.80 GT/s
- GeForce GT 71015.26 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 555051.20 GB/s
- GeForce GT 71014.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 5550352.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GT 710366.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better