Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce GT 230 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce GT 230 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Redwood
G92B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
April 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
24.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
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