AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 720 MHz
Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 122 Watt

Launch date	23 May 2013 vs 23 October 2012
Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 720 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 122 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3593 vs 567
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 440 vs 226

Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3593 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	440 vs 226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

3593

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

440

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
PassMark - G3D Mark	567	3593
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	440
Geekbench - OpenCL		12225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		25.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		734.936
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.31
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.434
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		56.706
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3336
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5683
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3336

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Kepler
Code name	Scrapper
Launch date	23 May 2013	23 October 2012
Place in performance rating	705	707
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz
Core clock speed	760 MHz	720 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	122 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	3540 Million
CUDA cores		1536
Pipelines		1536
Texture fill rate		92.2 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 API
OpenGL	4.4	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		160 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		2500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA