NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 999 MHz vs 760 MHz
  • Around 57% higher boost clock speed: 1328 MHz vs 844 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 32 nm
  • 7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4042 vs 567
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 289 vs 226
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 January 2018 vs 23 May 2013
Core clock speed 999 MHz vs 760 MHz
Boost clock speed 1328 MHz vs 844 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4042 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark 289 vs 226

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

  • Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4042
567
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
289
226
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 4042 567
PassMark - G2D Mark 289 226
Geekbench - OpenCL 12690
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6614
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1491
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1341
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2076

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Essentials

Architecture Pascal TeraScale 3
Code name GP107 Scrapper
Launch date 3 January 2018 23 May 2013
Place in performance rating 695 705
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1328 MHz 844 MHz
Core clock speed 999 MHz 760 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,700 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 53.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 3,300 million 1,303 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 IGP
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0