
Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GT 550M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce GT 550M
Radeon HD 5850
2048
GeForce GT 550M
590
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GT 550M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cypress
N12P-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
725 MHz
740 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
96
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
11.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
-
+