AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +420%

3.25 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

1536

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

195W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

GK104

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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