AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

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AMD Radeon HD 8550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

32 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M +13%

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

GeForce GTX 470M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Sep 2010

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

320

Shading Units

288

20

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.420 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.68 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

616.3 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GF104

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

N11E-GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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