NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs AMD Radeon E8870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

AMD Radeon E8870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870 +294%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

VS

Radeon E8870

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 500M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

144

Shading Units

768

24

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.700 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

16.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

388.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

32.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Saturn

N12E-GE2-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

160 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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