Radeon HD 8550M and GeForce 9650M GS - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550M
GeForce 9650M GS
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
Sun
NB9P-GS1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
March 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
850 MHz
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
-
32
Floating-point performance
544.0 gflops
80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
32
Power consumption (TDP)
-
29 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.00
10.00
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR2?, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A