Radeon HD 4730 vs Radeon HD 5550
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4730 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon HD 5550 |
| 71 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4730 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4730
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4730 | | Radeon HD 5550 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 CE) | vs | Redwood (Redwood PRO2) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 104 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 627 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 750 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4730 | | Radeon HD 5550 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4730 | | Radeon HD 5550 | |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | vs | 39 watts |
| Release Date | 8 Jun 2009 | vs | 9 Feb 2010 |
Radeon HD 4730
6.00 GP/s
Radeon HD 5550
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4730
24.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 5550
8.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4730
57.60 GB/s
Radeon HD 5550
51.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4730
960.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 5550
352.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better