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.

ATI Radeon HD 5530

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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		1546
PassMark - G2D Mark		371
Geekbench - OpenCL		5826
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	1047
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