NVIDIA T550 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA T550 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA T550 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA T550 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 15% higher core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 925 MHz
50.3x more texture fill rate: 106.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
21.7x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 500 Watt

Launch date	May 2022 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed	1065 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	106.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 500 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

4x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 1024
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
3.7x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA T550 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name	NVIDIA T550 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark	406
PassMark - G3D Mark	4819
Geekbench - OpenCL	35346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA T550 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU117	New Zealand
Launch date	May 2022	31 August 2012
Place in performance rating	335	338
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz
Core clock speed	1065 MHz	925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	106.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.820 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.410 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	53.28 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	106.6 GTexel/s	2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		2x 3,789 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	3x 8-pin
Length		292 mm
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5