Radeon HD 5530 vs GeForce GT 720 384SP
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 720 384SP
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5530 | | GeForce GT 720 384SP | |
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GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar XTX) | vs | GK208 () |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 87 mm² |
Transistors | 292 million | vs | unknown |
Shaders | 80 | vs | 384 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 967 MHz |
ROPs | 4 | vs | 8 |
TMUs | 8 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5530 | | GeForce GT 720 384SP | |
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Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
Memory Speed | 600 MHz
1200 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5530 | | GeForce GT 720 384SP | |
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TDP | 19 watts | vs | 19 watts |
Release Date | 17 Mar 2011 | vs | 27 Mar 2014 |
Radeon HD 5530
2.60 GP/s
GeForce GT 720 384SP
7.74 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5530
5.20 GT/s
GeForce GT 720 384SP
15.47 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5530
9.60 GB/s
GeForce GT 720 384SP
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5530
104.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 720 384SP
742.70 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better