AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +21%

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

5

-

320

Shading Units

320

20

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

Sun

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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