Radeon R5 (Carrizo) and GeForce GT 550M - video card comparison
Radeon R5 (Carrizo)
GeForce GT 550M
Architecture
GCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Carrizo
N12P-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2015
January 2011
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
800 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
740 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
-
284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2410 Million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
96
Power consumption (TDP)
12-35 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
11.8 billion/sec
Memory type
-
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
-
1536 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12 (FL 12_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
4.5
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
Optimus
-
+