
Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce GT 430 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce GT 430 PCI
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Redwood
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
October 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
11.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A