AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (60W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +431%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

28

-

480

Shading Units

1792

24

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Tahiti

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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