GeForce GT 555M vs Radeon R5 M330

GeForce GT 555M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 26 Mar 2012
GeForce GT 555M
Radeon R5 M330
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 M330

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 555M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 555MRadeon R5 M330
GPU NameGF116 (N12E-GE2-A1)vsExo (Exo PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders144vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock675 MHzvs955 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 555MRadeon R5 M330
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 555MRadeon R5 M330
TDP35 wattsvs18 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2012vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 555M
    2.70 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    8.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 555M
    16.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    20.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 555M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 M330
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 555M
    388.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 M330
    659.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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