GeForce 9700M GTS and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce 9700M GTS
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
NB9E-GS
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
July 2008
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
530 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
127.2 gflops
544.0 gflops
Gigaflops
180
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
384
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
12.72
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
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131