Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce GT 720
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5550 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GT 720 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5550
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce GT 720 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Redwood (Redwood PRO2) | vs | GK208 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | vs | 87 mm² |
| Transistors | 627 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 192 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 1 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | vs | 797 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce GT 720 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce GT 720 | |
|---|
| TDP | 39 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Feb 2010 | vs | 29 Sep 2014 |
Radeon HD 5550
4.40 GP/s
GeForce GT 720
3.19 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5550
8.80 GT/s
GeForce GT 720
12.75 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5550
51.20 GB/s
GeForce GT 720
12.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5550
352.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 720
306.05 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better