AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 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 8800 GTS 512

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.8x more pipelines: 480 vs 128
Around 50% better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 416.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 135 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	25 October 2013 vs 11 December 2007
Pipelines	480 vs 128
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops vs 416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 135 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

2.7x more texture fill rate: 41.6 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1640 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3342 vs 2278
Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3342 vs 2278

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	41.6 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1640 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342 vs 2278
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342 vs 2278

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2278

3342

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2278

3342

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
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	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2278	3342
PassMark - G3D Mark		555
PassMark - G2D Mark		71

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Turks	G92
Launch date	25 October 2013	11 December 2007
Place in performance rating	1341	1339
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops	416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	128
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	41.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	135 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	754 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 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		254 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	52.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1640 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3