AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500 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 GeForce3 Ti500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 240 MHz
8.1x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
3.2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Launch date	25 October 2013 vs 1 October 2001
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 240 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2278
PassMark - G3D Mark		3
PassMark - G2D Mark		116

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Kelvin
Code name	Turks	NV20 A5
Launch date	25 October 2013	1 October 2001
Place in performance rating	1335	1333
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	1.92 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	57 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		183 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.0
OpenGL	4.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR