AMD Radeon HD 8310E vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8310E and ATI Radeon HD 5550 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

ATI Radeon HD 5550

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 56% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 39 Watt
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 187 vs 185

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2013 vs 9 February 2010
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 39 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	187 vs 185

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5550

Around 38% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 377 vs 341

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	377 vs 341

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8310E
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5550

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

187

185

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

341

377

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	ATI Radeon HD 5550
PassMark - G2D Mark	187	185
PassMark - G3D Mark	341	377

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8310E	ATI Radeon HD 5550
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Kalindi	Redwood
Launch date	23 April 2013	9 February 2010
Place in performance rating	888	890
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	39 Watt
Transistor count	1,178 million	627 million
Floating-point performance		352.0 gflops
Pipelines		320
Texture fill rate		8.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		165 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		3200 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5