GeForce GT 555M 2 GB vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking586not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.61no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameVega RenoirGF116
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)26 March 2012 (12 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 cores384144
Core clock speed400 MHz675 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data16.20
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3888 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data24

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/s
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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 26 March 2012
Chip lithography 7 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 7 years, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and GeForce GT 555M 2 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 2 GB
GeForce GT 555M 2 GB

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