GeForce GTS 360M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce GTS 360M
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N11E-GS1
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2010
November 2012
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
MXM Type
MXM 3.0 Type-B
-
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
575 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
275.71 gflops
544.0 gflops
Gigaflops
413
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
727 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
384
Power consumption (TDP)
38 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
17.60
17.00
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Single Link DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Power management
8.0
-