Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5770
    111%
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770

Around 11% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5770

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5770

The Radeon HD 5770 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders800vs192
Compute Units10vs4
Core clock850 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770GeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP108 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2009vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5770
    2780
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490

Points (higher is better)