GeForce GTX 980M and Radeon HD 8550G - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon HD 8550G
GeForce GTX 980M
7565
Radeon HD 8550G
422
GeForce GTX 980M
Radeon HD 8550G
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GM204
Richland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
October 2014
March 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1127 MHz
720 MHz
Core clock speed
1038 MHz
515 MHz
CUDA cores
1536
-
Floating-point performance
3,462 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
1,303 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
256
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
51.84
11.52
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-