ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Redwood G92
GPU variant Redwood PRO2 N10E-GT
Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 627 million 754 million
Die size 104 mm² 324 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Feb 9th, 2010
Generation Evergreen
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 29 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R700
Successor Northern Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 550 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective 950 MHz 1900 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1375 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 60.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 320 112
TMUs 16 56
ROPs 8 16
Compute units 4
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 256 KB 64 KB
SM count 14

Performance

Pixel rate 4.400 GPixel/s 8.800 GPixel/s
Texture rate 8.800 GTexel/s 30.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 352.0 GFLOPS 308.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot
Length 165 mm 6.5 inches
TDP 39 W 65 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA No outputs
Power connectors None
Board number C021, C025, C029

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.4 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Mar 3rd, 2009
Generation GeForce 200M
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor GeForce 100M
Successor GeForce 300M

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