NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8550G
NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8550G

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

898
Place in performance rating
918
Fermi
Architecture
Terascale 3
GF108
Code name
Richland
Laptop
Type
Laptop
22 March 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
12 March 2013 (8 years ago)
$300
Price now
$338
0.04
Value for money
0.03
N13P-GLP / N13M-GS
GPU code name
Richland
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

96
Pipelines
256
no data
Core clock speed
515 MHz
715 MHz
Boost Clock
720 MHz
585 million
Transistor count
no data
28 / 40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
15 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
no data
Texture fill rate
11.52
253.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
96
CUDA cores
no data
96
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
715 MHz
Boost clock speed
720 MHz
585 million
Number of transistors
1,303 million
15 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
35 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
IGP
medium sized
Laptop size
medium sized
PCI Express 2.0
Bus support
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
System Shared
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
no data
1800 MHz
Memory clock speed
no data
-
Shared memory
+

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
HDCP
no data
Up to 2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
Verde Drivers
no data
+
3D Blu-Ray
no data
DirectX 11
DirectX 11
no data
+
DirectCompute
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 API
DirectX
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
4.5
OpenGL
no data
N/A
Vulkan
no data
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M and AMD Radeon HD 8550G graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M or AMD Radeon HD 8550G good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
AMD Radeon HD 8550G
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
AMD Radeon HD 8550G
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
AMD Radeon HD 8550G
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
AMD Radeon HD 8550G
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
AMD Radeon HD 8550G
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M

Cheaper ($300 vs $338)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 / 40 nm vs 32 nm)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8550G

0.01% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (256 vs 96)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M or AMD Radeon HD 8550G?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8550G .

NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M versus AMD Radeon HD 8550G performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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