NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop) 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.2x more boost clock speed: 1216 MHz vs 550 MHz
12x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
5.1x more pipelines: 2048 vs 400
9.1x better floating-point performance: 4,358 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	21 September 2015 vs 7 January 2012
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 400
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

14.3x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
257.1x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 100-200 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4053
PassMark - G3D Mark		465
PassMark - G2D Mark		403
Geekbench - OpenCL		5371

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (Laptop)	AMD Radeon HD 7550M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM204	Thames
Launch date	21 September 2015	7 January 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$395.82
Place in performance rating	567	564
Price now	$605.06
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	20.91
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1216 MHz	550 MHz
CUDA cores	2048
Floating-point performance	4,358 gflops	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	400
Texture fill rate	144 billion / sec	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100-200 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	716 million
Core clock speed		450 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
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
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround