AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1085MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A +155%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

GeForce GTX 960A

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

640

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GM107

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

148 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

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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