GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 vs Radeon HD 8550 OEM

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2013
GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2013
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8550 OEM

190 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU NameGK110B (GK110-300-B1)vsTurks (Turks PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size561 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors7,080 millionvs716 million
Shaders2304vs480
Compute Units12vs6
Core clock863 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs192vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width384 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2Radeon HD 8550 OEM
TDP250 wattsvs60 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2013vs25 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
    41.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8550 OEM
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
    166.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8550 OEM
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
    288.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8550 OEM
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 780 Rev. 2
    3977.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8550 OEM
    624.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better