AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 84 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2278 vs 1015
2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2278 vs 1015

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 October 2013 vs 9 March 2006
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 84 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2278 vs 1015
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2278 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2278

1015

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2278

1015

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1519
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1519
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2278	1015
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2278	1015
PassMark - G3D Mark		388
PassMark - G2D Mark		165

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Turks	G71
Launch date	25 October 2013	9 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1336	1333
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	84 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3