AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP and AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 - 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 200 Watt

Launch date	23 May 2013 vs 8 January 2013
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 200 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 760 MHz
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 925 MHz vs 844 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
4.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2806 vs 567
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 372 vs 226

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 760 MHz
Boost clock speed	925 MHz vs 844 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2806 vs 567
PassMark - G2D Mark	372 vs 226

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

2806

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

372

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	567	2806
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	372
Geekbench - OpenCL		13798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		40.311
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		795.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		64.205
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		181.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3348

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP	AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	GCN 1.0
Code name	Scrapper	Tahiti
Launch date	23 May 2013	8 January 2013
Place in performance rating	706	707
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz	925 MHz
Core clock speed	760 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		3,315 gflops
Pipelines		1792
Texture fill rate		103.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory bandwidth		240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		384 Bit
Memory clock speed		5000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5