AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M +38%

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

GeForce GT 740M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jun 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

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

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GK208

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

GT 740M

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

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

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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