AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

VS

AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

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

Main Differences

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

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +294%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Mar 2012

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

144

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.700 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF116

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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