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GeForce 810M vs Radeon HD 5550

Intro

The GeForce 810M comes with a GPU core clock speed of 738 MHz, and the 1024 MB of DDR3 memory is set to run at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 48 Stream Processors, 8 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5550, which features core speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 400 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 810M should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 5550 overall. (explain)

GeForce 810M 14400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5550 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5550 is much (about 49%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

Radeon HD 5550 8800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M 5904 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2896 (49%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5550 should be quite a bit (approximately 49%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce 810M, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 5550 4400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 810M 2952 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1448 (49%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 810M Radeon HD 5550
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2014 February 9, 2010
Code Name GF117 Redwood LE
Memory 1024 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 550 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 15 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 14400 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 5904 Mtexels/sec 8800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2952 Mpixels/sec 4400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 8 16
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type DDR3 DDR2
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 627 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 810M

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Radeon HD 5550

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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