AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E9550 MXM and NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 90% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 589 MHz
77.4x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
288x more pipelines: 2304 vs 8
260.1x better floating-point performance: 5,834 gflops vs 22.432 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
6.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	27 September 2016 vs 26 November 2009
Core clock speed	1120 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2304 vs 8
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops vs 22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

3.1x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	36624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	112.64
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1474.586
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	9.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	96.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	507.291
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3597
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3208
PassMark - G2D Mark		309
PassMark - G3D Mark		126

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E9550 MXM	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Ellesmere	GT218
Launch date	27 September 2016	26 November 2009
Place in performance rating	518	521
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1266 MHz
Core clock speed	1120 MHz	589 MHz
Floating-point performance	5,834 gflops	22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2304	8
Texture fill rate	182.3 GTexel / s	2.356 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	5,700 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2