AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +360%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Mar 2012

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

144

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.700 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF116

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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