NVIDIA Quadro M4000M vs AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M4000M 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 Quadro M4000M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 975 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 84% higher boost clock speed: 1013 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 6.5x more texture fill rate: 78 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 1,280 vs 400
  • 5.2x better floating-point performance: 2,496 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
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 13.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6149 vs 465
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 412 vs 403
  • 3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 19892 vs 5371
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 August 2015 vs 7 January 2012
Core clock speed 975 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed 1013 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 78 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1,280 vs 400
Floating-point performance 2,496 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6149 vs 465
PassMark - G2D Mark 412 vs 403
Geekbench - OpenCL 19892 vs 5371

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

  • 7.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M4000M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7550M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6149
465
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
412
403
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
19892
5371
Name NVIDIA Quadro M4000M AMD Radeon HD 7550M
PassMark - G3D Mark 6149 465
PassMark - G2D Mark 412 403
Geekbench - OpenCL 19892 5371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 81.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1235.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 68.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 251.464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2749
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3093
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7602
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2749
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3093
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro M4000M AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GM204 Thames
Launch date 18 August 2015 7 January 2012
Place in performance rating 564 561
Type Mobile workstation Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1013 MHz 550 MHz
Core clock speed 975 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,496 gflops 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1,280 400
Texture fill rate 78 GTexel / s 12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 716 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Display Port 1.2

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Shader Model 5.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5 / DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Display Management
Optimus