GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon HD 5550

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
Radeon HD 5550
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5550

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

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)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5550

121 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 2060 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 2060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon HD 5550
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsRedwood (Redwood PRO2)
Fab Process12 nmvs40 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs627 million
Shaders1920vs320
Compute Units30vs4
Core clock1365 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs120vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon HD 5550
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon HD 5550
TDP160 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs9 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5550
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5550
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5550
    51.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5550
    352.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better