Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 5550
Radeon HD 5870
2282
Radeon HD 5550
387
Radeon HD 5870
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Cypress
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
850 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
320
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
8.800
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A