NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M440
NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
VS
AMD Radeon R7 M440

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

816
Place in performance rating
698
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GF108
Code name
Meso
Laptop
Type
Laptop
6 January 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
1 June 2016 (5 years ago)
$55
Price now
$737
0.27
Value for money
0.58
N12P-GT
GPU code name
Meso
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
320
740 MHz
Core clock speed
1021 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
1,550 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
35 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
11.8 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
17.82
284.16 gflops
Floating-point performance
653.4 gflops
96
CUDA cores
no data
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
585 million
Number of transistors
1,550 million
35 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
large
Laptop size
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440 can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
DDR3
1536 MB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
900 MHz
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
28.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440 is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
DirectX 11
DirectX 11
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Vulkan
+
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M and AMD Radeon R7 M440 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M or AMD Radeon R7 M440 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
AMD Radeon R7 M440
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
AMD Radeon R7 M440
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
AMD Radeon R7 M440
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
AMD Radeon R7 M440
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M
AMD Radeon R7 M440
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Cheaper ($55 vs $737)

More maximum RAM amount (1536 MB vs 4 GB)

More memory bandwidth (28.8 GB/s vs 14.4 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R7 M440

1.45% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (320 vs 96)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M or AMD Radeon R7 M440?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R7 M440 .

NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M versus AMD Radeon R7 M440 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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