AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 9800M GTS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 600 MHz
7.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 64
3.3x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	25 October 2013 vs 21 August 2008
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	480 vs 64
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3076 vs 2278
Around 35% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3076 vs 2278

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3076 vs 2278
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3076 vs 2278

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2278

3076

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2278

3076

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
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	3076
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2278	3076
PassMark - G3D Mark		376
PassMark - G2D Mark		87

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Turks	G94
Launch date	25 October 2013	21 August 2008
Place in performance rating	1343	1340
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	480	64
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	505 million
CUDA cores		64
Gigaflops		240
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
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	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD