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).

NVIDIA T550 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

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 405
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5214 vs 4829

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 405
PassMark - G3D Mark	5214 vs 4829

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

405

658

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4829

5214

Name	NVIDIA T550 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark	405	658
PassMark - G3D Mark	4829	5214
Geekbench - OpenCL	35589
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