AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and AMD Radeon HD 8310E 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 550

AMD Radeon HD 8310E

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2717 vs 341
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 478 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 23 April 2013
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2717 vs 341
PassMark - G2D Mark	478 vs 187

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8310E

2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8310E

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2717

341

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

478

187

Name	AMD Radeon RX 550	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
PassMark - G3D Mark	2717	341
PassMark - G2D Mark	478	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	11659
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.507
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1037.305
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	52.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	140.911
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4485
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	940
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	127

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 550	AMD Radeon HD 8310E
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Lexa	Kalindi
Design	Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	23 April 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	889	892
Price now	$75
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	59.51
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	1.2 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	2,200 million	1,178 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	IGP
Length	145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)