AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 8550 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: 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).

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 730 MHz vs 650 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 60 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	730 MHz vs 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 60 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Around 50% higher pipelines: 480 vs 320
Around 25% better floating-point performance: 624.0 gflops vs 499.2 gflops

Pipelines	480 vs 320
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops vs 499.2 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1088
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1519
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1519
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2278
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2278

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Oland	Turks
Launch date	1 November 2013	25 October 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	1343
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	499.2 gflops	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	320	480
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	60 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	716 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3