NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M and ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2 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 - 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Launch date 27 October 2011 vs 13 October 2010

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

  • 11.1x more pipelines: 2x 800 vs 144
  • 7x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,360.0 gflops vs 388.8 gflops
  • 2.9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.092 vs 0.717
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2x 800 vs 144
Floating-point performance 2x 1,360.0 gflops vs 388.8 gflops
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.092 vs 0.717

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
0.717
2.092
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 661
PassMark - G2D Mark 112
Geekbench - OpenCL 2933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 7.438
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 252.895
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.717 2.092
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 12.581
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 21.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2265
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2827
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2265
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2827

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF106 Juniper
Launch date 27 October 2011 13 October 2010
Place in performance rating 1415 1568
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 753 MHz
CUDA cores Up to 144
Floating-point performance 388.8 gflops 2x 1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 144 2x 800
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 1,040 million
Core clock speed 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 34.0 GTexel / s billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 API 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x 1 GB
Memory type DDR3\DDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Memory bandwidth 2x 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI