AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

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AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (1176MHz vs 625MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8850M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X Mobile +88%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8850M

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X Mobile

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Radeon HD 8850M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

1.505 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

94.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Venus

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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