GeForce 8800M GTS and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce 8800M GTS
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
NB8E-GT
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2007
November 2012
Interface
MXM-HE
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
160 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
384
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
16.00
17.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131