Radeon HD 4550 and GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4550
GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV710
C78
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
600 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
96 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
242 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
16
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
4.800
4.000
Memory type
DDR2
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
64 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
1310 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
10.48 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A