NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1176MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +176%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Sun

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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