AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM vs Intel HD Graphics 4600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM and Intel HD Graphics 4600 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 3.1x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
  • 24x more pipelines: 480 vs 20
  • 12.5x better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 50 gflops
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1088 vs 988
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1088 vs 988
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 October 2013 vs 3 June 2013
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 480 vs 20
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops vs 50 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1088 vs 988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1088 vs 988

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4600

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 60 Watt
  • Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1702 vs 1519
  • Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1702 vs 1519
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2808 vs 2278
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2808 vs 2278
Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology 22 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 60 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1702 vs 1519
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1702 vs 1519
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2808 vs 2278
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2808 vs 2278

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 4600

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1088
988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1088
988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1519
1702
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1519
1702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2278
2808
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2278
2808
Name AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM Intel HD Graphics 4600
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1088 988
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1088 988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1519 1702
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1519 1702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2278 2808
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2278 2808
PassMark - G3D Mark 629
PassMark - G2D Mark 314
Geekbench - OpenCL 3211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 171.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.115
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.385
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 12.361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 194

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM Intel HD Graphics 4600

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Generation 7.5
Code name Turks Haswell GT2
Launch date 25 October 2013 3 June 2013
Place in performance rating 1349 1350
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops 50 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 22 nm
Pipelines 480 20
Texture fill rate 15.6 GTexel / s 5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 392 million
Boost clock speed 1250 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.4 4.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3
Shared memory 1

Technologies

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