AMD Radeon HD 8550G vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550G and NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550G

  • 5.3x more pipelines: 256 vs 48
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 753 vs 629
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 753 vs 629
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1397 vs 1102
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1397 vs 1102
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 412 vs 352
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 256 vs 48
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 753 vs 629
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 753 vs 629
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1397 vs 1102
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1397 vs 1102
PassMark - G3D Mark 412 vs 352

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM

  • Around 70% higher core clock speed: 874 MHz vs 515 MHz
  • Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1345 vs 1234
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2918 vs 2459
  • Around 19% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2918 vs 2459
  • Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 189 vs 118
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 874 MHz vs 515 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 1345 vs 1234
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2918 vs 2459
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2918 vs 2459
PassMark - G2D Mark 189 vs 118

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1234
1345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
753
629
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
753
629
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1397
1102
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1397
1102
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2459
2918
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2459
2918
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
118
189
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
412
352
Name AMD Radeon HD 8550G NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL 1234 1345
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 753 629
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 753 629
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1397 1102
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1397 1102
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2459 2918
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2459 2918
PassMark - G2D Mark 118 189
PassMark - G3D Mark 412 352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.857

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8550G NVIDIA GeForce GT 625 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Fermi 2.0
Code name Richland GF119
Launch date 12 March 2013 18 February 2013
Place in performance rating 1400 1401
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 720 MHz
Core clock speed 515 MHz 874 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 256 48
Floating-point performance 167.8 gflops
Texture fill rate 6.992 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt
Transistor count 292 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 13.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1650 MHz
Memory type DDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI