NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +528%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1664

Shading Units

480

104

TMUs

24

56

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Turks

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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