AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GRID K500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550M and NVIDIA GRID K500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

NVIDIA GRID K500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K500

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 650 MHz
123.6x more texture fill rate: 2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 17 GTexel / s
8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 384
9x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,448 gflops vs 544.0 gflops
8x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 1 GB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	745 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 17 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2x 2,448 gflops vs 544.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550M	NVIDIA GRID K500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kepler
Code name	Sun	GK104
Launch date	13 July 2014	2 July 2014
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$3,599
Technical info
Boost clock speed	850 MHz
Core clock speed	650 MHz	745 MHz
Floating-point performance	544.0 gflops	2x 2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	2x 1536
Texture fill rate	17 GTexel / s	2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count	1,040 million	3,540 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		225 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	2x 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0