ATI Radeon HD 5770 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5770 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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 5770

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5770

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.7x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 140 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
24x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 200 MHz
167.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1343 vs 8
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 333 vs 152

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 October 2009 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1343 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	333 vs 152

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

27.1x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5770
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1343

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

333

152

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5770	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	1343	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	333	152
Geekbench - OpenCL	10495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	9.373
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	459.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.906
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.022
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	48.793
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2799
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2799
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5770	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Juniper	NV34 B1
Design	ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date	13 October 2009	17 March 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$159	$36.99
Place in performance rating	1093	1094
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Boost clock speed	850 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	34.0 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	208 mm	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	11	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity