GeForce GT 550M vs Radeon R5 M330

GeForce GT 550M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 550M
Radeon R5 M330
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 M330

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 550M
    100%
  • Radeon R5 M330
    105%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 550M

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M330

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 5% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R5 M330

HWBench recommends Radeon R5 M330

The Radeon R5 M330 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 550MRadeon R5 M330
GPU NameGF108 (N12P-GT1-A1)vsExo (Exo PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders96vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock740 MHzvs955 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 550MRadeon R5 M330
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 550MRadeon R5 M330
TDP35 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    2.96 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    8.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 550M
    11.84 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    20.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 550M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 550M
    284.16 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M330
    659.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 550M
    1340
  • Radeon R5 M330
    1420

Points (higher is better)

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