NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 771 MHz vs 550 MHz
11.6x more texture fill rate: 102.0 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 320
7x better floating-point performance: 2,448 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3200 MHz

Launch date	8 November 2013 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed	771 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	102.0 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 320
Floating-point performance	2,448 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 3200 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

3.1x lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 122 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 5550
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1002.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	54.752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	126.579
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6703
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	108.2
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	119.7
PassMark - G3D Mark		377
PassMark - G2D Mark		185

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK104	Redwood
Launch date	8 November 2013	9 February 2010
Place in performance rating	887	890
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	797 MHz
Core clock speed	771 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,448 gflops	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1536	320
Texture fill rate	102.0 GTexel / s	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 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
Length		165 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5