NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5530

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2 and ATI Radeon HD 5530. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

G71GPU NameCedar
CurieArchitectureTeraScale 2
TSMCFoundryTSMC
90 nmProcess Size40 nm
278 millionTransistors292 million
196 mm²Die Size59 mm²

Graphics Card

Apr 30th, 2006Release DateMar 17th, 2011
GeForce 7 PCIe
(7900)
FamilyEvergreen
(HD 5500)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 6 PCIePredecessorRadeon R700
PCIe 1.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

512 MB x2Memory Size1024 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
256 bit x2Memory Bus64 bit

Clock Speeds

600 MHz
1200 Mbps effective
Memory Clock600 MHz
1200 Mbps effective
500 MHzGPU Clock650 MHz

Render Config

24 x2TMUs8
16 x2ROPs4

Board Design

312 mm
12.3 inches
Length170 mm
6.7 inches
110 WThermal design power (TDP)19 W
300 WSuggested PSU200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Display Connectors1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA

API support

9.0c (9_3)DirectX11.2 (11_0)
2.1OpenGL4.4
N/AOpenCL1.2
N/AVulkanN/A
3.0Shader Model5.0