GeForce GT 630M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison

GeForce GT 630M

Radeon HD 8550M

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

N13P-GL/GL2

Sun

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

December 2011

November 2012

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0

-

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x8

Boost clock speed

-

850 MHz

Core clock speed

Up to 800 MHz

700 MHz

CUDA cores

96

-

Floating-point performance

253.4 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)

33 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

Up to 12.8 billion/sec

17.00

Memory type

DDR3\GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

Up to 128bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

Up to 32.0 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

Up to 2048x1536

-

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

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

Optimus

+

-