AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 A265 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (850MHz vs 825MHz)

AMD Radeon R7 A265 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A265 +16%

0.633 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

VS

Radeon R7 A265

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

Solar System

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

825 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

6

320

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

633.6 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

39.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Opal

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

Opal XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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