ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

656 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +187%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Mar 2012

Manhattan

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

144

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.700 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

GF116

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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