Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5550 |
| 86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Redwood (Redwood PRO2) | vs | G92 (G92-270-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | 627 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 112 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 39 watts | vs | 125 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Feb 2010 | vs | 1 Feb 2008 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better