AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM 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 GT 140 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 650 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 55 nm
Around 62% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 105 Watt

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 May 2013 vs 10 March 2009
Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 105 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	226 vs 225

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM

Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 658 vs 567

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	658 vs 567

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

658

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

225

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	567	658
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	225

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Tesla
Code name	Scrapper	G94B
Launch date	23 May 2013	10 March 2009
Place in performance rating	705	708
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz
Core clock speed	760 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	105 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	505 million
Floating-point performance		208 gflops
Pipelines		64
Texture fill rate		20.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3