AMD FirePro D300 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro D300 and AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro D300

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 12% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 760 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
Launch date 18 January 2014 vs 23 May 2013
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 760 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 32 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro D300
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Name AMD FirePro D300 AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
Geekbench - OpenCL 20101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 51.183
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1192.547
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 78.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 242.179
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6054
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6054
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
PassMark - G3D Mark 567
PassMark - G2D Mark 226

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro D300 AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 3
Code name Pitcairn Scrapper
Launch date 18 January 2014 23 May 2013
Place in performance rating 704 705
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 760 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 1280
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 1,303 million
Boost clock speed 844 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 IGP
Length 242 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 162.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5080 MHz
Memory type GDDR5