
GeForce 7800 GTX and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7800 GTX vs Radeon HD 5550
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
Radeon HD 5550
387
GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G70
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2005
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
430 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
302 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
86 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.32
8.800
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A