AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8450G

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 8450G 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: 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 533 MHz
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 480 vs 192
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1519 vs 1397
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1519 vs 1397
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 October 2013 vs 12 March 2013
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 533 MHz
Pipelines 480 vs 192
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1519 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1519 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8450G

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2389 vs 2278
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2389 vs 2278
Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2389 vs 2278
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2389 vs 2278

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8450G

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1519
1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1519
1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2278
2389
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2278
2389
Name AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM AMD Radeon HD 8450G
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1519 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1519 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2278 2389
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2278 2389
Geekbench - OpenCL 984
PassMark - G2D Mark 134
PassMark - G3D Mark 337

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM AMD Radeon HD 8450G

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Terascale 3
Code name Turks Richland
Launch date 25 October 2013 12 March 2013
Place in performance rating 1335 1336
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 533 MHz
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 480 192
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt
Transistor count 716 million
Boost clock speed 720 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3
Shared memory 1