AMD Radeon HD 8550M vs AMD Radeon R7 260

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8550M and AMD Radeon R7 260 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1625 MHz
Launch date 13 July 2014 vs 17 December 2013
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1625 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 260

  • Around 29% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 2.8x more texture fill rate: 48 GTexel / s vs 17 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
  • 2.8x better floating-point performance: 1,536 gflops vs 544.0 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Boost clock speed 1100 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 48 GTexel / s vs 17 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,536 gflops vs 544.0 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8550M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 260

Name AMD Radeon HD 8550M AMD Radeon R7 260
PassMark - G3D Mark 2892
PassMark - G2D Mark 559
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 26.189
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 798.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 45.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 240.395

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8550M AMD Radeon R7 260

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Sun Bonaire
Launch date 13 July 2014 17 December 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 570
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $109
Price now $89.99
Value for money (0-100) 44.11

Technical info

Boost clock speed 850 MHz 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 544.0 gflops 1,536 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 768
Texture fill rate 17 GTexel / s 48 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,040 million 2,080 million
Stream Processors 896
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 104 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1625 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DDMA audio
FreeSync