GeForce GT 440 OEM vs Radeon HD 8550M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking972not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameSunGF106
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 July 2014 (10 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 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 cores320144
Core clock speed650 MHz810 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rate17.0019.44
Floating-point processing power0.544 TFLOPS0.4666 TFLOPS
ROPs824
TMUs2024

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s43.2 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 July 2014 11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1536 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

HD 8550M has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GT 440 OEM, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8550M and GeForce GT 440 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8550M is a notebook card while GeForce GT 440 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8550M
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