
GeForce 830M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce 830M
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N15?
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
November 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
850 MHz
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
588.8 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
384
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
18.40
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
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-