ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5550 and NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon HD 5550

NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 69% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 325 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
4.9x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 650 MHz
62.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 377 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 February 2010 vs 17 February 2004
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 650 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	377 vs 6

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 197 vs 185

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	197 vs 185

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

185

197

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5550	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300
PassMark - G3D Mark	377	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	185	197

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5550	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Redwood	NV37
Launch date	9 February 2010	17 February 2004
Place in performance rating	890	903
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	325 MHz
Floating-point performance	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR