GeForce GTS 160M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 160M
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N10E-GS1
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2009
November 2012
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI options
2-way
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
544.0 gflops
Gigaflops
288
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
384
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
19 billion/sec
17.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Power management
8.0
-