ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5550 and NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go 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 GeForce4 448 Go

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 400 MHz
62.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 377 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 February 2010 vs 1 March 2002
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	377 vs 6

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go

90.9x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 199 vs 185

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	199 vs 185

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

185

199

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5550	NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go
PassMark - G3D Mark	377	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	185	199

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5550	NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Celsius
Code name	Redwood	NV18 A4
Launch date	9 February 2010	1 March 2002
Place in performance rating	899	891
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	29 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.0
OpenGL	4.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR