AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (967MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +377%

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1344

20

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GK104

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

294 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

3.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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