AMD Radeon HD 8550G vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550G and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 256 vs 96
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
Launch date 12 March 2013 vs 22 March 2012
Pipelines 256 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

  • Around 94% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2398 vs 1234
  • Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 967 vs 753
  • Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 967 vs 753
  • Around 98% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2766 vs 1397
  • Around 98% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2766 vs 1397
  • Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 2459
  • Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 2459
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 150 vs 118
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 538 vs 412
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 2398 vs 1234
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 967 vs 753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 967 vs 753
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2766 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2766 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 2459
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 2459
PassMark - G2D Mark 150 vs 118
PassMark - G3D Mark 538 vs 412

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1234
2398
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
753
967
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
753
967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1397
2766
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1397
2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2459
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2459
3359
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
118
150
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
412
538
Name AMD Radeon HD 8550G NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
Geekbench - OpenCL 1234 2398
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 753 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 753 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1397 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1397 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2459 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2459 3359
PassMark - G2D Mark 118 150
PassMark - G3D Mark 412 538
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 215.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.903
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8550G NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Fermi
Code name Richland GF108
Launch date 12 March 2013 22 March 2012
Place in performance rating 1400 1403
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 720 MHz
Core clock speed 515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 256 96
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt
Transistor count 585 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized medium sized
Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface MXM-A (3.0)

API support

DirectX 11 12.0 (11_0)
DirectX 11.2 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus