GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 | | Radeon HD 8550 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK110 (GK110-300-A1) | vs | Turks (Turks PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 561 mm² | vs | 118 mm² |
| Transistors | 7,080 million | vs | 716 million |
| Shaders | 2304 | vs | 480 |
| Compute Units | 12 | vs | 6 |
| Core clock | 863 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 192 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 780 | | Radeon HD 8550 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 384 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 3072 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 780 | | Radeon HD 8550 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 60 watts |
| Release Date | 23 May 2013 | vs | 25 Oct 2013 |
GeForce GTX 780
41.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
5.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780
166.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
15.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780
288.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
25.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 780
3977.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
624.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better