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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

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: 4047 vs 567
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 288 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	4047 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	288 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

4047

567

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

288

226

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	4047	567
PassMark - G2D Mark	288	226
Geekbench - OpenCL	12601
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	703	706
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