Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GT 555M 2 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce GT 555M 2 GB
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV770
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
March 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
750 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
144
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
16.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
1800 MBps
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A