NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition +158%

1.005 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2010

GeForce 500M

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

144

Shading Units

800

24

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.700 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.05 GPixel/s

16.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.12 GTexel/s

-

388.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1005 GFLOPS

32.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

30W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Broadway

N12E-GE2-A1

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

166 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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