Radeon HD 4550 vs GeForce GTX 460 X2
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4550 |
| 135 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 X2 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460 X2 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 460 X2
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4550 | | GeForce GTX 460 X2 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV710 () | vs | GF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 73 mm² | vs | 332 mm² |
| Transistors | 242 million | vs | 1,950 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 336 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 701 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4550 | | GeForce GTX 460 X2 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 655 MHz
1310 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4550 | | GeForce GTX 460 X2 | |
|---|
| TDP | 25 watts | vs | 160 watts |
| Release Date | 30 Sep 2008 | vs | 11 Mar 2011 |
Radeon HD 4550
2.40 GP/s
GeForce GTX 460 X2
19.62 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4550
4.80 GT/s
GeForce GTX 460 X2
78.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4550
10.50 GB/s
GeForce GTX 460 X2
230.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4550
96.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 460 X2
1883.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better