AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon 550

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
2024.6x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 18.7 billion / sec
Around 45% higher pipelines: 512 vs 352
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 46% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1200 MHz
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1960 vs 1617

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 Apr 2017 vs 25 May 2010
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 18.7 billion / sec
Pipelines	512 vs 352
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1960 vs 1617

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 458 vs 442

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	458 vs 442

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

442

458

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1960

1617

Name	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
PassMark - G2D Mark	442	458
PassMark - G3D Mark	1960	1617

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Fermi
Code name	Lexa	GF100
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	25 May 2010
Place in performance rating	299	296
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	352
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	18.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	3,100 million
Floating-point performance		598.4 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 API
OpenCL	2.1	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI