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.
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: 5720 vs 465
- 3.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19016 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 | 5720 vs 465 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 19016 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 388
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 14 Watt vs 81 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 403 vs 388 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M | AMD Radeon HD 7550M |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 5720 | 465 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 388 | 403 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 19016 | 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 | 2285 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M | AMD Radeon HD 7550M | |
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Essentials |
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| 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 | 557 | 560 |
| Price now | $1,899 | |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| Value for money (0-100) | 3.99 | |
Technical info |
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| 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 |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
| DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
| G-SYNC support | ||
| HDMI | ||
| VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| 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 |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.4 |
Memory |
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| 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 |
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| BatteryBoost | ||
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| DSR | ||
| GameStream | ||
| GameWorks | ||
| GeForce Experience | ||
| GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
| GPU Boost | ||
| H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
| Optimus | ||
| SLI | ||
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