Radeon R4 Graphics vs GeForce GT 550M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking986not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.88no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF108Beema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 January 2011 (13 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96128
Core clock speed475 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors585 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate7.6006.400
Floating-point processing power0.1824 TFLOPS0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs168

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 API12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2011 11 June 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

R4 Graphics has an age advantage of 3 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 550M and Radeon R4 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 550M is a notebook card while Radeon R4 Graphics is a desktop one.


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