NVIDIA GRID K520 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K520 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GRID K520

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K520

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
6.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3516 vs 567

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 July 2013 vs 23 May 2013
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3516 vs 567

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
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 160

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 745 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 225 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	226 vs 160

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K520
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3516

567

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

160

226

Name	NVIDIA GRID K520	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	3516	567
PassMark - G2D Mark	160	226
Geekbench - OpenCL	10864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	20.97
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1063.784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.244
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	42.277
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	76.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6782
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6782
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID K520	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 3
Code name	GK104	Scrapper
Launch date	23 July 2013	23 May 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,599
Place in performance rating	738	739
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	745 MHz	760 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	2x 1536
Texture fill rate	2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
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
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5