AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 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 660

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 140 Watt

Launch date	23 May 2013 vs 6 September 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 140 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 760 MHz
Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1033 MHz vs 844 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4017 vs 567
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 487 vs 226

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 760 MHz
Boost clock speed	1033 MHz vs 844 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4017 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	487 vs 226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

4017

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

487

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
PassMark - G3D Mark	567	4017
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	487
Geekbench - OpenCL		11364
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		30.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		705.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.085
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		62.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3365
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1307

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Kepler
Code name	Scrapper	GK106
Launch date	23 May 2013	6 September 2012
Place in performance rating	739	740
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$349.99
Value for money (0-100)		14.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz	1033 MHz
Core clock speed	760 MHz	980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	2,540 million
CUDA cores		960
Floating-point performance		1,981 gflops
Pipelines		960
Texture fill rate		78.4 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		9.5" (24.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors		One 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		144.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed		6.0 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA