AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 2 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 150 nm
70.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 567 vs 8

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 May 2013 vs 6 March 2003
Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	567 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 226

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	247 vs 226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

247

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
PassMark - G3D Mark	567	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	247

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Rankine
Code name	Scrapper	NV34 A1
Launch date	23 May 2013	6 March 2003
Place in performance rating	707	704
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz
Core clock speed	760 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	45 million
Texture fill rate		800 MTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		332 MHz
Memory type		DDR