NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M and ATI Radeon HD 5550 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 19.7 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 75% better floating-point performance: 616.3 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 512 MB
  • 5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1953 vs 377
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 413 vs 185
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 September 2010 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 19.7 billion / sec vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 616.3 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Maximum memory size 1536 MB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1953 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark 413 vs 185

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

  • Around 11% higher pipelines: 320 vs 288
  • Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 2.6x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Pipelines 320 vs 288
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 39 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed 3200 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1953
377
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
413
185
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark 1953 377
PassMark - G2D Mark 413 185
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 732
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 732
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1112

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M ATI Radeon HD 5550

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF104 Redwood
Launch date 3 September 2010 9 February 2010
Place in performance rating 896 897
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1100 MHz 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 616.3 gflops 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 288 320
Texture fill rate 19.7 billion / sec 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 39 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None None
Length 165 mm

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 60.0 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI