NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 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 965M

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 944 MHz vs 760 MHz
Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 844 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3775 vs 567
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 340 vs 226

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 January 2015 vs 23 May 2013
Core clock speed	944 MHz vs 760 MHz
Boost clock speed	950 MHz vs 844 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3775 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	340 vs 226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3775

567

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

340

226

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	3775	567
PassMark - G2D Mark	340	226
Geekbench - OpenCL	14739
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	67.59
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	720.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	57.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	223.296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5783
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2566
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1831

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 3
Code name	GM204	Scrapper
Launch date	9 January 2015	23 May 2013
Place in performance rating	703	705
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz	844 MHz
Core clock speed	944 MHz	760 MHz
CUDA cores	1024
Floating-point performance	2,355 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	1024
Texture fill rate	73.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	1,303 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Laptop size	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI