AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
- Around 25% higher pipelines: 480 vs 384
- Around 30% better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
| Launch date | 25 October 2013 vs 22 March 2012 |
| Pipelines | 480 vs 384 |
| Floating-point performance | 624.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
- Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 32 Watt vs 60 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
- Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
- Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1476 vs 1088
- Around 36% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1476 vs 1088
- Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1963 vs 1519
- Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1963 vs 1519
- Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2580 vs 2278
- Around 13% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2580 vs 2278
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 40 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 32 Watt vs 60 Watt |
| Maximum memory size | 2 GB vs 1 GB |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 1476 vs 1088 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 1476 vs 1088 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 1963 vs 1519 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 1963 vs 1519 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 2580 vs 2278 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 2580 vs 2278 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
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| Name | AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM | NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M |
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| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 1088 | 1476 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 1088 | 1476 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 1519 | 1963 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 1519 | 1963 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 2278 | 2580 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 2278 | 2580 |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 923 | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 198 | |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 3184 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 7.861 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 275.972 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 0.727 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 15.445 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 17.381 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM | NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Kepler |
| Code name | Turks | GK107 |
| Launch date | 25 October 2013 | 22 March 2012 |
| Place in performance rating | 1343 | 1346 |
| Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | |
| Floating-point performance | 624.0 gflops | 480.0 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 480 | 384 |
| Texture fill rate | 15.6 GTexel / s | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 60 Watt | 32 Watt |
| Transistor count | 716 million | 1,270 million |
| Boost clock speed | 645 MHz | |
| CUDA cores | 384 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA | No outputs |
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| Maximum VGA resolution | Up to 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
| Bus support | PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12 API |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB / s | |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 128bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR3 | DDR3\GDDR5 |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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| DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 | |
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