NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE and ATI Radeon HD 5550 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

ATI Radeon HD 5550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 550 MHz
3.5x more texture fill rate: 31.2 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
2.1x better floating-point performance: 748.8 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
5.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1990 vs 377
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 363 vs 185

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 November 2010 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed	1300 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	31.2 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	748.8 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1990 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark	363 vs 185

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

Around 11% higher pipelines: 320 vs 288
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 88% higher memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Pipelines	320 vs 288
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1990

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

363

185

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE	ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark	1990	377
PassMark - G2D Mark	363	185
Geekbench - OpenCL	6340
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.62
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	635.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.755
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	24.476
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	48.203
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3108
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3108

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF104	Redwood
Launch date	15 November 2010	9 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$160
Place in performance rating	916	918
Price now	$159.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	15.95
Technical info
Core clock speed	1300 MHz	550 MHz
CUDA cores	288
Floating-point performance	748.8 gflops	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	104 °C
Pipelines	288	320
Texture fill rate	31.2 billion / sec	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	627 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, 2 x Dual-Link DVI-I1 x Mini HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Number of display connectors	2
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)	165 mm
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin & 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.1	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	108.8 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround