GeForce GT 555M and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 555M vs Radeon 8500
GeForce GT 555M
674
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce GT 555M
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N12E-GE-B
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
August 2001
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
753 MHz
-
Core clock speed
Up to 753 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
Up to 144
-
Floating-point performance
388.8 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
144
-
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
Up to 16.2 billion/sec
2.200
Memory type
DDR3\DDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
Up to 192 bit/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 1569 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
Up to 50.2 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
Optimus
+
-