NVIDIA GeForce 710A vs AMD Radeon HD 8550G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 710A and AMD Radeon HD 8550G 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 710A

AMD Radeon HD 8550G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 710A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 719 MHz vs 515 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 473 vs 412
Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 198 vs 118
2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2638 vs 1234
Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1112 vs 753
Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1967 vs 1397
Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1112 vs 753
Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1967 vs 1397

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 12 March 2013
Core clock speed	719 MHz vs 515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	473 vs 412
PassMark - G2D Mark	198 vs 118
Geekbench - OpenCL	2638 vs 1234
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1112 vs 753
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1967 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1112 vs 753
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1967 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550G

Around 33% higher pipelines: 256 vs 192

Pipelines	256 vs 192

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 710A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

473

412

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

198

118

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

2638

1234

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1112

753

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1967

1397

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1112

753

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1967

1397

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 710A	AMD Radeon HD 8550G
PassMark - G3D Mark	473	412
PassMark - G2D Mark	198	118
Geekbench - OpenCL	2638	1234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.071
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	141.919
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.636
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	13.803
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.162
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1112	753
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1967	1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1112	753
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1967	1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2459
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2459

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 710A	AMD Radeon HD 8550G
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Terascale 3
Code name	GK208	Richland
Launch date	17 March 2014	12 March 2013
Place in performance rating	1397	1400
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	719 MHz	515 MHz
Floating-point performance	276.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	192	256
Texture fill rate	11.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million
Boost clock speed		720 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory		1