AMD Radeon HD 7550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Thames GF117
GPU variant Thames LP N14M-GE
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 716 million 585 million
Die size 104 mm² 116 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 7th, 2012 Apr 1st, 2013
Generation London (HD 7500M) GeForce 700M
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor Vancouver GeForce 600M
Successor Solar System GeForce 800M

Clocks

Base clock 450 MHz
Boost clock 550 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
GPU clock 775 MHz
Shader clock 1250 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 2 GB
Memory type DDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 14.40 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 400 96
TMUs 20 16
ROPs 8 8
Compute units 5
SM count 2
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 128 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.400 GPixel/s 3.100 GPixel/s
Texture rate 11.00 GTexel/s 12.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 440.0 GFLOPS 240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 20.00 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

TDP 14 W 33 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Slot width MXM Module

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

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