AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs AMD Radeon R9 M385X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M385X 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1100MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385X +262%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

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Radeon R9 M385X

Graphics Card

Jul 2014

Release Date

May 2015

Solar System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

14

320

Shading Units

896

20

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

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

17.60 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Strato

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GPU Variant

Strato XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5

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