Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GT 550M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GT 550M
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GT 550M
590
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GT 550M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cayman
N12P-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
740 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
96
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
11.8 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-