AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500 and AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 760 MHz
Around 66% higher boost clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 844 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 32 nm

Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 23 May 2013
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 760 MHz
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz vs 844 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 32 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 125 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	130.7
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2361.73
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	774.974
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
PassMark - G3D Mark		567
PassMark - G2D Mark		226

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	TeraScale 3
Code name	Navi 14	Scrapper
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	23 May 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Place in performance rating	330	704
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	844 MHz
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	760 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	32 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	246.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.885 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.942 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408
Pixel fill rate	44.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	123.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	1,303 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	IGP
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Width	Single-slot
API support
DirectX	12.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)
Memory type	GDDR6