NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs AMD Radeon HD 7470A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

AMD Radeon HD 7470A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 7470A 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (25W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M +42%

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470A

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

Radeon HD 7470A

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 500M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Caicos

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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