NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +492%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 500M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

2

SM Count

-

144

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

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

28.80 GPixel/s

16.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

388.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

32.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Neptune

N12E-GE2-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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