Radeon HD 8550 vs GeForce GTX 970 |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly lower TDP | 60W | vs | 148W | 2.5x lower TDP | |||
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| Much higher effective memory clock speed | 7,012 MHz | vs | 1,600 MHz | Around 4.5x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Much higher memory bandwidth | 224.4 GB/s | vs | 25.6 GB/s | More than 8.8x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,050 MHz | vs | 650 MHz | More than 60% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly better floating-point performance | 3,494 GFLOPS | vs | 624 GFLOPS | More than 5.5x better floating-point performance | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 4x more memory | |||
| Much higher pixel rate | 58.8 GPixel/s | vs | 5.2 GPixel/s | More than 11.2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Significantly higher texture rate | 109.2 GTexel/s | vs | 15.6 GTexel/s | More than 7x higher texture rate | |||
| Many more render output processors | 56 | vs | 8 | 48 more render output processors | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 104 | vs | 24 | 80 more texture mapping units | |||
| Much higher memory clock speed | 1,753 MHz | vs | 800 MHz | Around 2.2x higher memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly more shading units | 1,664 | vs | 480 | 1184 more shading units | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
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Features Key features of the Radeon HD 8550 vs GeForce GTX 970
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu | Radeon HD 8550 | vs | GeForce GTX 970 |
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| GPU brand | AMD | Nvidia | |
| GPU name | Turks | GM204 | |
| Market | Desktop | Desktop | |
| Clock speed | 650 MHz | 1,050 MHz | |
| Is dual GPU | No | No | |
| Reference card | None | None | |
raw performance | |||
| Shading units | 480 | 1,664 | |
| Texture mapping units | 24 | 104 | |
| Render output processors | 8 | 56 | |
| Pixel rate | 5.2 GPixel/s | 58.8 GPixel/s | |
| Texture rate | 15.6 GTexel/s | 109.2 GTexel/s | |
| Floating-point performance | 624 GFLOPS | 3,494 GFLOPS | |
memory | Radeon HD 8550 | vs | GeForce GTX 970 |
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| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | 1,753 MHz | |
| Effective memory clock speed | 1,600 MHz | 7,012 MHz | |
| Memory bus | 128 bit | 256 bit | |
| Memory | 1,024 MB | 4,096 MB | |
| Memory type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 | |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB/s | 224.4 GB/s | |
noise and power | |||
| TDP | 60W | 148W | |
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