
Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
Redwood
GT200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
September 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
576 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
536.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
216
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
182 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
41.47
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
896 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
1998 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A