GeForce GTX 970M SLI and Radeon HD 8550G - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M SLI
Radeon HD 8550G
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
-
Richland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
March 2013
Interface
-
IGP
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
720 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
2x 5200 Million
1,303 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
256
Power consumption (TDP)
162 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
11.52
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2x 6 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
2x 192 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
System Shared
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12_1
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
Optimus
+
-