Radeon HD 8550M and GeForce 9500 GT - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8550M

GeForce 9500 GT

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Sun

G96

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2012

July 2008

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

-

+

Boost clock speed

850 MHz

-

Core clock speed

700 MHz

550 MHz

CUDA cores

-

32

Floating-point performance

544.0 gflops

89.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

314 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

32

Power consumption (TDP)

-

50 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

105 °C

Texture fill rate

17.00

8.8 billion/sec

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A