NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs AMD Radeon E8950
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M 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 555M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 95W)
AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1904 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 555M
0.389 TFLOPS
Radeon E8950
+952%
4.096 TFLOPS
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
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
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
-
144
Shading Units
2048
24
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.700 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
16.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.096 TFLOPS
388.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
32.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
256.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
Amethyst
N12E-GE2-A1
GPU Variant
E8950
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
5 billion
238 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
