NVIDIA T550 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA T550 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA T550 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 12% higher core clock speed: 1065 MHz vs 950 MHz
  • Around 67% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 50.1x more texture fill rate: 106.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 16.3x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 375 Watt
Launch date May 2022 vs 24 April 2013
Core clock speed 1065 MHz vs 950 MHz
Boost clock speed 1665 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 106.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 375 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

  • 4x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 1024
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
  • Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 658 vs 406
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5214 vs 4824
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 2x 3 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 658 vs 406
PassMark - G3D Mark 5214 vs 4824

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA T550 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
406
658
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4824
5214
Name NVIDIA T550 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark 406 658
PassMark - G3D Mark 4824 5214
Geekbench - OpenCL 35390
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 44.481
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1984.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 125.504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 470.237

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA T550 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU117 Malta
Launch date May 2022 24 April 2013
Place in performance rating 333 334
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1065 MHz 950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 106.6 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 6.820 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 3.410 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 2x 2048
Pixel fill rate 53.28 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 106.6 GTexel/s 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt 375 Watt
Transistor count 4700 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 2x 4,096 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Length 307 mm

API support

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 96.00 GB/s 2x 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5