Radeon HD 8550D IGP vs R9 285

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking358not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.68no data
Power efficiency6.39no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameTongaScrapper
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 September 2014 (11 years ago)23 May 2013 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores1792256
Core clock speed918 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data844 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate102.813.50
Floating-point processing power3.29 TFLOPS0.4321 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs11216

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 3.0 x16IGP
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
HDMI+-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.55.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.11.2
Vulkan1.2.170N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2014 23 May 2013
Chip lithography 28 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 65 Watt

R9 285 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8550D IGP, on the other hand, has 192.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 285 and Radeon HD 8550D IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

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