GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 5870

Place in performance ranking	562	650
Place by popularity	not in top-100	55
Value for money	0.95	0.28
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Cypress	GF116
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	23 September 2009 (14 years old)	15 March 2011 (13 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	$149
Current price	$125 (0.3x MSRP)	$197 (1.3x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

ATI HD 5870 has 239% better value for money than GTX 550 Ti.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1600	192
CUDA cores	no data	192
Core clock speed	850 MHz	900 MHz
Number of transistors	2,154 million	1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	188 Watt	116 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	no data	100 °C
Texture fill rate	68.00	28.8 billion/sec
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops	691.2 gflops

Size and 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).

Bus support	no data	16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	282 mm	8.25" (21 cm)
Height	no data	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	One 6-pin
SLI options	no data	+

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	4.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	98.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Multi monitor support	no data	+
HDMI	+	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	no data	Internal

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.2
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	no data	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI HD 5870 5.72
+43.4%

GTX 550 Ti 3.99

Radeon HD 5870 outperforms GeForce GTX 550 Ti by 43% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

ATI HD 5870 2216
+43.3%

GTX 550 Ti 1546

Radeon HD 5870 outperforms GeForce GTX 550 Ti by 43% in Passmark.