GeForce GT 550M vs Radeon HD 6470M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 550M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6470M |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 550M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 550M | | Radeon HD 6470M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF108 (N12P-GT1-A1) | vs | Seymour (Seymour XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 67 mm² |
| Transistors | 585 million | vs | 370 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 160 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 740 MHz | vs | 700 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 550M | | Radeon HD 6470M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 550M | | Radeon HD 6470M | |
|---|
| TDP | 35 watts | vs | 0 watts |
| Release Date | 5 Jan 2011 | vs | 4 Jan 2011 |
GeForce GT 550M
2.96 GP/s
Radeon HD 6470M
2.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 550M
11.84 GT/s
Radeon HD 6470M
5.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 550M
28.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 6470M
12.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 550M
284.16 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6470M
224.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better