ATI Radeon HD 5530 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5530 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5530

  • 6.1x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 116 Watt
  • Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1026 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt vs 116 Watt
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

  • 2.8x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 5.5x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 192 vs 80
  • 6.6x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 104 gflops
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 28.8 billion / sec vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 80
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops vs 104 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5530
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Name ATI Radeon HD 5530 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
PassMark - G3D Mark 1555
PassMark - G2D Mark 375
Geekbench - OpenCL 5772
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3322
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 322

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5530 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi 2.0
Code name Cedar GF116
Launch date 17 March 2011 15 March 2011
Place in performance rating not rated 1061
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $149
Price now $287.59
Value for money (0-100) 7.49

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 1800 MHz
Floating-point performance 104 gflops 691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 80 192
Texture fill rate 5.2 GTexel / s 28.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt 116 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 1,170 million
CUDA cores 192
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Audio input for HDMI Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 170 mm 8.25" (21 cm)
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors One 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 9.6 GB / s 98.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 1026 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI

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