Radeon HD 5550 vs Radeon HD 5570

Radeon HD 5550
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5550
Radeon HD 5570
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2011
Radeon HD 5570

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 5570

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5570

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5550Radeon HD 5570
GPU NameRedwood (Redwood PRO2)vsTurks (Turks LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size104 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors627 millionvs716 million
Shaders320vs320
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock550 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5550Radeon HD 5570
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
3200 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5550Radeon HD 5570
TDP39 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date9 Feb 2010vs11 Oct 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5550
    4.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5550
    8.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    10.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5550
    51.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5570
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5550
    352.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5570
    416.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better