Radeon HD 4550 vs GeForce GT 710

Radeon HD 4550
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4550
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4550

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 710

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 710

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4550GeForce GT 710
GPU NameRV710 ()vsGK208 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors242 millionvsunknown
Shaders80vs192
Compute Units1vs1
Core clock600 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4550GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed655 MHz
1310 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4550GeForce GT 710
TDP25 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2008vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4550
    2.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4550
    4.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4550
    10.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4550
    96.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better