AMD Radeon HD 7550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7550M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 39% higher pipelines: 400 vs 288
10.7x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 150 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	7 January 2012 vs 14 May 2011
Pipelines	400 vs 288
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Around 64% higher core clock speed: 736 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.9x more texture fill rate: 35.3 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Around 77% better floating-point performance: 847.9 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
2.1x more memory clock speed: 3828 MHz vs 1800 MHz
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1572 vs 465
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 447 vs 403
5.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27378 vs 5371

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	736 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	35.3 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	847.9 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Memory clock speed	3828 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1572 vs 465
PassMark - G2D Mark	447 vs 403
Geekbench - OpenCL	27378 vs 5371

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7550M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

465

1572

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

447

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

5371

27378

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7550M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	465	1572
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	447
Geekbench - OpenCL	5371	27378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3372
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3322
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3322

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7550M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Thames	GF114
Launch date	7 January 2012	14 May 2011
Place in performance rating	592	593
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	550 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	736 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	847.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	288
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	35.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	1,950 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		210 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	91.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3828 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 / DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0