AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP and AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
3.9x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 254 Watt

Launch date	23 May 2013 vs 19 September 2011
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 254 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 760 MHz
4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2534 vs 567
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 373 vs 226

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 760 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2534 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	373 vs 226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

2534

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

373

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	567	2534
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	373
Geekbench - OpenCL		3977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.789

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	TeraScale 2
Code name	Scrapper	Barts
Launch date	23 May 2013	19 September 2011
Place in performance rating	739	741
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz
Core clock speed	760 MHz	800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	254 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	1,700 million
Floating-point performance		2x 1,536.0 gflops
Pipelines		2x 960
Texture fill rate		2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2x 2 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed		4200 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5