AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 430 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 372 vs 226
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1093 vs 567

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 June 2016 vs 23 May 2013
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	372 vs 226
PassMark - G3D Mark	1093 vs 567

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 760 MHz vs 730 MHz
Around 8% higher boost clock speed: 844 MHz vs 780 MHz

Core clock speed	760 MHz vs 730 MHz
Boost clock speed	844 MHz vs 780 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

372

226

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1093

567

Name	AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
PassMark - G2D Mark	372	226
PassMark - G3D Mark	1093	567
Geekbench - OpenCL	5928
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3341
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3341
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 430 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8550D IGP
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale 3
Code name	Oland	Scrapper
Launch date	30 June 2016	23 May 2013
Place in performance rating	694	706
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	844 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	760 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,303 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3