Radeon HD 4550 vs GeForce 210
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4550 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce 210 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4550
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4550 | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV710 () | vs | GT218 (GT218-300-B1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 73 mm² | vs | 57 mm² |
| Transistors | 242 million | vs | 260 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 16 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 520 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4550 | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 655 MHz
1310 MHz effective | vs | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4550 | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| TDP | 25 watts | vs | 31 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Sep 2008 | vs | 12 Oct 2009 |
Radeon HD 4550
2.40 GP/s
GeForce 210
2.08 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4550
4.80 GT/s
GeForce 210
4.16 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4550
10.50 GB/s
GeForce 210
6.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4550
96.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 210
39.36 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better