GeForce FX 5500 PCI vs Radeon HD 7750M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking756not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.64no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameChelseaNV34 B1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)17 March 2004 (20 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 cores512no data
Core clock speed575 MHz270 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million45 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Wattno data
Texture fill rate18.401.080
Floating-point processing power0.5888 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs324

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Lengthno data165 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0a
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 17 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

HD 7750M has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7750M and GeForce FX 5500 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7750M is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5500 PCI is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 7750M
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