GeForce 820M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce 820M
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N15V-GM
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
November 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
775 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
384
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
10.00
17.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-