NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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, 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

ATI Radeon HD 5550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 550 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 43.4 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 640 vs 320
3.9x better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
8.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3048 vs 377
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 185

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2014 vs 9 February 2010
Core clock speed	797 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s vs 8.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3048 vs 377
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 185

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3048

377

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

185

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G3D Mark	3048	377
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	185
Geekbench - OpenCL	10394
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1151

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK104	Redwood
Launch date	10 March 2014	9 February 2010
Place in performance rating	900	902
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	915 MHz
Core clock speed	797 MHz	550 MHz
CUDA cores	1152 or 640
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	640	320
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	627 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		165 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		3200 MHz
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA