Graphics 4-Cores iGPU (Arc) vs Radeon HD 8550 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated432
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Xe LPG (2023)
GPU code nameTurksMeteor Lake iGPU
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 October 2013 (11 years ago)14 December 2023 (less than a year 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 cores4804
Core clock speed650 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1950 MHz
Number of transistors716 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Wattno data
Texture fill rate15.60no data
Floating-point processing power0.624 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs24no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12_2
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 October 2013 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm

Graphics 4-Cores iGPU (Arc) has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8550 OEM and Graphics 4-Cores iGPU (Arc). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8550 OEM is a desktop card while Graphics 4-Cores iGPU (Arc) is a notebook one.


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