Radeon R5 M330 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Radeon R5 M330
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R5 M330
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R5 M330
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    175%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M330

98 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 550 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Around 75% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 550 Ti

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 M330GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameExo (Exo PRO)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders320vs192
Compute Units5vs4
Core clock955 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs8vs24
TMUs20vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 M330GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 M330GeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP18 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date5 May 2015vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 M330
    8.24 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 M330
    20.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 M330
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 M330
    659.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R5 M330
    1420
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490

Points (higher is better)