Graphics card comparison
Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce GT 720
AMD
Radeon HD 5550
512 Mb GDDR5
Released 9 Feb 2010
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GT 720
1024 Mb DDR3
Released 29 Sep 2014
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Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 5550
- Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
- Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 720
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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
HWSpot recommends the Radeon HD 5550
Based on theoretical specifications.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | GeForce GT 720 |
|---|
| 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 | 797 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | 16 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | GeForce GT 720 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5550 | GeForce GT 720 |
|---|
| TDP | 39 watts | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Feb 2010 | 29 Sep 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 55504.40 GP/s
- GeForce GT 7203.19 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 55508.80 GT/s
- GeForce GT 72012.75 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 555051.20 GB/s
- GeForce GT 72012.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 5550352.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GT 720306.05 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better