Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 550 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Neptune
GF116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
March 2011
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
One 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
900 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
192
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
116 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
100 °C
Texture fill rate
72.00
28.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
4.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
98.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A