NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +1342%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 500M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Amethyst

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

E8950

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

5 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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