AMD Radeon HD 8550G

The AMD Radeon HD 8550G is a processor graphics card in the AMD Richland APUs (for example, the A8-5550M). It offers only 256 VLIW4 shader cores vs. the 384 shader cores of the 8650G. The 8550G has no dedicated graphics memory and shares the main memory with the CPU cores.

The integrated UVD3 video decoder allows for full decoding of Multi-View Codec (MVC), MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX, xVid), MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and Adobe Flash HD videos.

According to its clock rate range of 515 - 720 MHz (or 554 - 720 MHz in an A8-5557M), performance is only a few percentage points above a Radeon HD 7640G. Thus, the Radeon HD 8550G performs similarly to a dedicated Radeon HD 7570M. Without fast dual-channel memory, however, performance drops dramatically. The shaders of the chip can also be used for general computing.

The APU is manufactured in 32nm and rated at a TDP of 35 W. This allows the chip to be used in notebooks from 13- to 14-inches or larger.

Radeon HD 8000G Series Radeon HD 8650G 384 @ 0.53 - 0.72 GHz Radeon HD 8510G 384 @ 0.45 - 0.55 GHz Radeon HD 8550G 256 @ 0.52 - 0.72 GHz Radeon HD 8610G 384 @ 0.53 - 0.63 GHz Radeon HD 8450G 192 @ 0.53 - 0.72 GHz Radeon HD 8410G 192 @ 0.45 - 0.6 GHz Radeon HD 8350G 128 @ 0.51 - 0.72 GHz Radeon HD 8310G 128 @ 0.42 - 0.55 GHz
Codename	Richland
Architecture	Terascale 3
Pipelines	256 - unified
Core Speed	515 - 720 (Boost) MHz
Shared Memory	yes
API	DirectX 11, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.2
technology	32 nm
Notebook Size	medium sized
Date of Announcement	12.03.2013

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