NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 73% (1468MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +1281%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Sun

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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