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GeForce 810M vs Radeon HD 4550 256MB

Intro

The GeForce 810M has a GPU 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 features 48 SPUs, 8 TAUs, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4550 256MB, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 600 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 800 MHz on this specific model. It features 80(16x5) SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M 15 Watts
Radeon HD 4550 256MB 25 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 810M should be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4550 256MB overall. (explain)

GeForce 810M 14400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4550 256MB 12800 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 810M will be much (about 23%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4550 256MB. (explain)

GeForce 810M 5904 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4550 256MB 4800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1104 (23%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 810M is a lot (more or less 23%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4550 256MB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce 810M 2952 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4550 256MB 2400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 552 (23%)

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 4550 256MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2014 Sep 30, 2008
Code Name GF117 RV710
Memory 1024 MB 256 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 600 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 15 watts 25 watts
Bandwidth 14400 MB/sec 12800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 5904 Mtexels/sec 4800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2952 Mpixels/sec 2400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 80(16x5)
Texture Mapping Units 8 8
Render Output Units 4 4
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 64-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 242 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 810M

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Radeon HD 4550 256MB

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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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