NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon HD 7550M 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 970M

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 89% higher boost clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 550 MHz
6.9x more texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 400
5.5x better floating-point performance: 2,657 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
12.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5723 vs 465
3.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19018 vs 5371

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 October 2014 vs 7 January 2012
Core clock speed	924 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	83.04 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 400
Floating-point performance	2,657 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5723 vs 465
Geekbench - OpenCL	19018 vs 5371

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

5.8x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 81 Watt
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 387

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 81 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 387

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5723

465

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

387

403

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

19018

5371

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
PassMark - G3D Mark	5723	465
PassMark - G2D Mark	387	403
Geekbench - OpenCL	19018	5371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	59.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1113.788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	81.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2286

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM204	Thames
Launch date	7 October 2014	7 January 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,560.89
Place in performance rating	558	561
Price now	$1,899
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	3.99
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	550 MHz
Core clock speed	924 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	1280
Floating-point performance	2,657 gflops	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	400
Texture fill rate	83.04 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	81 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	120 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI