AMD Radeon HD 8550G vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550G and NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 78% higher pipelines: 256 vs 144
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 117 vs 112
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 March 2013 vs 27 October 2011
Pipelines 256 vs 144
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 117 vs 112

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

  • Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 753 MHz vs 720 MHz
  • 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2833 vs 1244
  • Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1134 vs 753
  • Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1134 vs 753
  • Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2265 vs 1397
  • Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2265 vs 1397
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2827 vs 2459
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2827 vs 2459
  • Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 661 vs 411
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 753 MHz vs 720 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 2833 vs 1244
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1134 vs 753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1134 vs 753
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2265 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2265 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2827 vs 2459
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2827 vs 2459
PassMark - G3D Mark 661 vs 411

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1244
2833
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
753
1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
753
1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1397
2265
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1397
2265
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2459
2827
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2459
2827
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
117
112
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
411
661
Name AMD Radeon HD 8550G NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
Geekbench - OpenCL 1244 2833
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 753 1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 753 1134
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1397 2265
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1397 2265
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2459 2827
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2459 2827
PassMark - G2D Mark 117 112
PassMark - G3D Mark 411 661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 7.438
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 252.895
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.717
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 12.581
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 21.909

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8550G NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Fermi
Code name Richland GF106
Launch date 12 March 2013 27 October 2011
Place in performance rating 1412 1414
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 720 MHz 753 MHz
Core clock speed 515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 256 144
CUDA cores Up to 144
Floating-point performance 388.8 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized large
Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 11 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory type DDR3\DDR5

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI