AMD Radeon Pro 555X vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 555X 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 Pro 555X 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (94.08GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 555X +156%

1.393 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 555X

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Jul 2018

Release Date

Jul 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

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

1470 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

94.08GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

5

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

43.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

1393 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1393 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

87.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Sun

Polaris 21 PRO

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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