GeForce GT 555M and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 555M vs Radeon RX 590
GeForce GT 555M
674
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce GT 555M
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N12E-GE-B
Polaris 30
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
November 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
753 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 753 MHz
1469 MHz
CUDA cores
Up to 144
-
Floating-point performance
388.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
144
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
Up to 16.2 billion/sec
222.5
Memory type
DDR3\DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
Up to 192 bit/128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 1569 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 50.2 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
FreeSync
-
+
Optimus
+
-