AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• Around 15% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 736 MHz
• Around 93% higher texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 35.3 GTexel / s
• 4.4x more pipelines: 1280 vs 288
• 2.6x better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 847.9 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 3828 MHz
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3569 vs 1572
• Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 496 vs 447
• Around 77% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5094 vs 2879
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3692 vs 3372
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3339 vs 3322
• Around 77% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5094 vs 2879
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3692 vs 3372
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3339 vs 3322

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

• Around 59% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27378 vs 17210

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3569 1572
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	496 447
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	17210 27378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5094 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3692 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5094 2879
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3692 3372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 3322

Compare specifications (specs)