AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 vs AMD Radeon HD 8550G

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 and AMD Radeon HD 8550G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

AMD Radeon HD 8550G

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 94% higher boost clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 720 MHz
Around 25% higher pipelines: 320 vs 256
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 32 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 12 March 2013
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz vs 720 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 256
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 32 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8550G

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	AMD Radeon HD 8550G
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	902
Geekbench - OpenCL		1244
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		753
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2459
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2459
PassMark - G2D Mark		117
PassMark - G3D Mark		411

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5	AMD Radeon HD 8550G
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Terascale 3
Code name	Vega	Richland
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	12 March 2013
Place in performance rating	1527	1412
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	720 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	320	256
Core clock speed		515 MHz
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size		medium sized
Memory
Shared memory		1