Radeon HD 8550M and GeForce 610M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550M
GeForce 610M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Sun
N13M-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
December 2011
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
850 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
700 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
544.0 gflops
129.02 gflops
Video decoders
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
48
Power consumption (TDP)
-
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.00
Up to 7.2 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
Up to 14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
Up to 2048x1536
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Optimus
-
+