NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M 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, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 26% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 760 MHz
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 993 MHz vs 844 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3814 vs 567
Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 330 vs 226

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 23 May 2013
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 760 MHz
Boost clock speed	993 MHz vs 844 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3814 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	330 vs 226

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 122 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3814

567

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

330

226

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	3814	567
PassMark - G2D Mark	330	226
Geekbench - OpenCL	15023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	46.273
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	777.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	38.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	82.511
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1611

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 3
Code name	GK104	Scrapper
Launch date	12 March 2014	23 May 2013
Place in performance rating	737	739
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	844 MHz
Core clock speed	954 MHz	760 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Floating-point performance	3,050 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	1536
Texture fill rate	127.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	1,303 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA