NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 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

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition +404%

1.962 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

VS

Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 500M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

2

SM Count

-

144

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

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

30.66 GPixel/s

16.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.31 GTexel/s

-

388.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.962 TFLOPS

32.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Pitcairn

N12E-GE2-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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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