Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Radeon HD 5550
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2014
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 730 GDDR5

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 730 GDDR5

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 730 GDDR5

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5550GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood PRO2)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors627 millionvsunknown
Shaders320vs384
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5550GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5550GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
TDP39 wattsvs38 watts
Release Date9 Feb 2010vs18 Jun 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5550
    4.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5550
    8.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    14.43 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5550
    51.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    40.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5550
    352.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better