GeForce GTX 480M and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480M
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N11E-GTX-A3
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2010
November 2012
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
850 MHz
Core clock speed
425 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
598.4 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
352
384
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
18.7 billion/sec
17.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DirectX
12 API
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