Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs ATI 9700 PRO

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1489not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameR300Scrapper
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 July 2002 (23 years ago)23 May 2013 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data256
Core clock speed325 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data844 MHz
Number of transistors110 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rate2.60013.50
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4321 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs816

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xIGP
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsFloppyno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed310 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth19.84 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0 (9_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGL2.04.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 23 May 2013
Chip lithography 150 nm 32 nm

HD 8550D IGP has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 368.8% more advanced lithography process.

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