Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce GT 710

Radeon HD 5550
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5550

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5550GeForce GT 710
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood PRO2)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors627 millionvsunknown
Shaders320vs192
Compute Units4vs1
Core clock550 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5550GeForce GT 710
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5550GeForce GT 710
TDP39 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date9 Feb 2010vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5550
    4.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5550
    8.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5550
    51.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5550
    352.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better