AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 930M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (941MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 930M +32%

0.723 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

GeForce 930M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

928 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

941 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.528 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

722.7 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GM108

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

N16S-GM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

Unknown

56 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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