Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GT 555M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GT 555M
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce GT 555M
674
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GT 555M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
N12E-GE-B
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
753 MHz
Core clock speed
-
Up to 753 MHz
CUDA cores
-
Up to 144
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
388.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
144
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.04
Up to 16.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3\DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
Up to 192 bit/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
Up to 1569 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
Up to 50.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-