ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce GT 620 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1116
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.72
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF119Redwood
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 April 2012 (12 years ago)9 February 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48320
Core clock speed810 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors292 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt39 Watt
Texture fill rate6.4808.800
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPS0.352 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length145 mm165 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed898 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.37 GB/s51.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 April 2012 9 February 2010
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 39 Watt

GT 620 OEM has an age advantage of 2 years, and 30% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 5550, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 620 OEM and Radeon HD 5550. We've got no test results to judge.


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