Radeon HD 8690M and GeForce GT 550M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8690M vs GeForce GT 550M
Radeon HD 8690M
1014
GeForce GT 550M
590
Radeon HD 8690M
GeForce GT 550M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Sun
N12P-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
825 MHz
-
Core clock speed
775 MHz
740 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
528.0 gflops
284.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
16.50
11.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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
-
+