NVIDIA GRID K260Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K260Q and AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

NVIDIA GRID K260Q

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K260Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2949 vs 567
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 361 vs 226

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 June 2013 vs 23 May 2013
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2949 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	361 vs 226

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 745 MHz
3.5x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 225 Watt

Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 745 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K260Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2949

567

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

361

226

Name	NVIDIA GRID K260Q	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	2949	567
PassMark - G2D Mark	361	226
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6474
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6474
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1898
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1898
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1954
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1954

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID K260Q	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 3
Code name	GK104	Scrapper
Launch date	28 June 2013	23 May 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$937
Place in performance rating	545	705
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	745 MHz	760 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,289 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	1536
Texture fill rate	95.36 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	1,303 million
Boost clock speed		844 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5