GeForce MX550 vs Radeon HD 8450 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated405
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data32.87
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCaicosTU117S
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 January 2013 (11 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1601024
Core clock speed625 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1320 MHz
Number of transistors370 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate5.00042.24
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS2.703 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2013 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 25 Watt

HD 8450 OEM has 38.9% lower power consumption.

GeForce MX550, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8450 OEM and GeForce MX550. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8450 OEM is a desktop card while GeForce MX550 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8450 OEM
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