Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Redwood
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
112
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
33.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A