NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

AMD Radeon R5 A230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock855MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 550M

0.284 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230 +92%

0.547 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 550M

VS

Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 500M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.960 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

11.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

284.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

23.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Jet

N12P-GT1-A1

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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