GeForce GT 550M and Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) - video card comparison
GeForce GT 550M
Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
Beema
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
April 2014
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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850 MHz
Core clock speed
740 MHz
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CUDA cores
96
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Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
128
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
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Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
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Memory type
DDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12 API
12 (FL 12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
4.5
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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Optimus
+
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