NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 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. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

ATI Radeon HD 5550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 34% higher core clock speed: 736 MHz vs 550 MHz
4x more texture fill rate: 35.33 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
2.4x better floating-point performance: 847.9 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 3828 MHz vs 3200 MHz
5.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1914 vs 377
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 423 vs 185

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 February 2012 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed	736 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	35.33 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	847.9 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3828 MHz vs 3200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1914 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark	423 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

Pipelines	320 vs 288
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1914

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

423

185

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE	ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark	1914	377
PassMark - G2D Mark	423	185
Geekbench - OpenCL	6235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	618.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.232
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	50.114
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF114	Redwood
Launch date	20 February 2012	9 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$89.99
Place in performance rating	967	890
Price now	$89.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	28.95
Technical info
Core clock speed	736 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	847.9 gflops	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	288	320
Texture fill rate	35.33 GTexel / s	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	1,950 million	627 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	210 mm	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	91.87 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3828 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5