AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

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AMD Radeon HD 8550M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M +126%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GT

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

GeForce 9800M GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

20

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

G92

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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