AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8550M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M +580%

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Dec 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 100M

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

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

14W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

G96C

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

121 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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