AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550X Mobile and ATI Radeon 8500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 16 year(s) 7 month(s) later
4x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 275 MHz
23400x more texture fill rate: 51.48 GTexel/s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
12.7x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 550 MHz

Launch date	3 April 2018 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 550 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

2.2x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550X Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

Name	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	ATI Radeon 8500
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2322
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1748
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2522
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2522
Geekbench - OpenCL	8677
PassMark - G2D Mark		146
PassMark - G3D Mark		7

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550X Mobile	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Rage 7
Code name	Lexa	R200
Design	Radeon 500X Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	3 April 2018	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1168	1165
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1287 MHz
Compute units	8/10
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.65 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	640
Pixel fill rate	20.60 GP/s
Render output units	16
Stream Processors	512/640
Texture fill rate	51.48 GTexel/s	2.2 GTexel / s
Texture Units	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	60 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	8.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	56 GB/s	8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support