AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 720 MHz
  • Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 1183 MHz vs 844 MHz
  • Around 87% higher texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel / s vs 20.26 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 32 nm
  • Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
  • 6.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2713 vs 396
  • Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 488 vs 259
  • Around 15% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11719 vs 10204
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 28 December 2013
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 720 MHz
Boost clock speed 1183 MHz vs 844 MHz
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel / s vs 20.26 GTexel / s
Pipelines 512 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 32 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 65 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2713 vs 396
PassMark - G2D Mark 488 vs 259
Geekbench - OpenCL 11719 vs 10204

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

  • 540.2x better floating-point performance: 648.2 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
Floating-point performance 648.2 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2713
396
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
488
259
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
11719
10204
Name AMD Radeon RX 550 AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 2713 396
PassMark - G2D Mark 488 259
Geekbench - OpenCL 11719 10204
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 1199

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 550 AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 3
Code name Lexa Scrapper
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 28 December 2013
Launch price (MSRP) $79
Place in performance rating 850 853
Price now $75
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 59.51

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1183 MHz 844 MHz
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 720 MHz
Floating-point performance 1.2 TFLOPs 648.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 512 384
Texture fill rate 37.86 GTexel / s 20.26 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 65 Watt
Transistor count 2,200 million 1,303 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 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
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 System Shared

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)