Radeon HD 5530 vs GeForce GT 720 384SP

Radeon HD 5530
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 5530
GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 720 384SP
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5530

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 384SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 720 384SP

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 720 384SP

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5530GeForce GT 720 384SP
GPU NameCedar (Cedar XTX)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors292 millionvsunknown
Shaders80vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs967 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5530GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5530GeForce GT 720 384SP
TDP19 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date17 Mar 2011vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    7.74 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5530
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    15.47 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5530
    9.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5530
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    742.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better