AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580X

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X 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 580X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1200MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580X +916%

5.53 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jul 2014

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

218.9GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

5

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

Unknown

-

2x HDMI 2.0b

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Sun

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

232 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)

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M

2

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M

3

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

4

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

5

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

6

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M LE

7

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

8

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile

9

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon R5 M240 Rebrand

10

AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX110

Related News

1

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

2

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

3

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

4

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

5

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

6

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

7

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

8

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

9

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

10

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps