ATI Radeon X550 vs GeForce GTX 555 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameGF114RV370
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 May 2011 (13 years ago)1 July 2005 (19 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 cores288no data
Core clock speed736 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million107 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data
Texture fill rate35.331.600
Floating-point processing power0.8479 TFLOPSno data
ROPs244
TMUs484

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 1.0 x16
Length210 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed957 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth91.87 GB/s8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2011 1 July 2005
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 110 nm

GTX 555 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 175% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 555 OEM and Radeon X550. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM
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