NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2336 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +871%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

2816

Shading Units

480

176

TMUs

24

96

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Turks

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

601 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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