AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 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: 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 700 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 250 Watt

Launch date	23 May 2013 vs 26 March 2010
Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

7.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4121 vs 567
Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 430 vs 226

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4121 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	430 vs 226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

4121

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

430

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
PassMark - G3D Mark	567	4121
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	430
Geekbench - OpenCL		13143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		34.483
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		706.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		30.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		106.875
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3320
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5110
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3320
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Fermi
Code name	Scrapper	GF100
Launch date	23 May 2013	26 March 2010
Place in performance rating	739	742
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Price now		$71.99
Value for money (0-100)		61.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz
Core clock speed	760 MHz	700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	3,100 million
CUDA cores		480
Floating-point performance		1,345.0 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Pipelines		480
Texture fill rate		42 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options		2-way, 3-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin & 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1536 MB
Memory bandwidth		177.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
SLI