NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD Radeon HD 7550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1038MHz vs 550MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +503%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7550M

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon HD 7550M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

450 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

550 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Thames

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Thames LP

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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