Radeon Vega 3 Embedded vs HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking888not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameno dataPicasso-M
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2013 (11 years ago)2019 (5 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 cores640192
Core clock speed720 / 975 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rateno data14.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data12

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno dataMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

Vega 3 Embedded has a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics and Radeon Vega 3 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics is a notebook card while Radeon Vega 3 Embedded is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics
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