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
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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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Benchmarks
3DM Vant. Perf. total +
specvp12 sw-03 +
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit +
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 +

* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.

Fifa 15
2014
Risen 3: Titan Lords
2014
GRID: Autosport
2014
Watch Dogs
2014
Titanfall
2014
Thief
2014
Call of Duty: Ghosts
2013