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.

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon HD 8000G Series

Radeon HD 8650G (compare)	384 @ 533 - 720 (Boost) MHz
Radeon HD 8610G (compare)	384 @ 533 - 626 (Boost) MHz
Radeon HD 8510G (compare)	384 @ 450 - 554 (Boost) MHz
Radeon HD 8550G	256 @ 515 - 720 (Boost) MHz
Radeon HD 8450G (compare)	192 @ 533 - 720 (Boost) MHz
Radeon HD 8410G (compare)	192 @ 450 - 600 (Boost) MHz
Radeon HD 8350G (compare)	128 @ 514 - 720 (Boost) MHz
Radeon HD 8310G (compare)	128 @ 424 - 554 (Boost) MHz

Codename

Richland

Architecture

Terascale 3

Pipelines

256 - unified

Core Speed

515 - 720 (Boost) MHz

Shared Memory

yes

DirectX

DirectX 11, Shader 5.0

technology

32 nm

Notebook Size

medium sized

Date of Announcement

12.03.2013

CPU		GPU Base Speed	GPU Boost / Turbo
AMD A8-5550M	4 x 2100 MHz, 35 W	515 MHz	720 MHz
AMD A8-5557M	4 x 2100 MHz, 35 W	554 MHz	720 MHz
min. - max.		515 - 554 MHz	720 - 720 MHz

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

67801 Points (13%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

41713 Points (6%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

4060 Points (7%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

6107 Points (3%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

746 Points (3%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

792 Points (2%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

64034 Points (9%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

1280 points (4%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

1179 points (2%)

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon HD 6730M -3%

AMD Radeon HD 7690M -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M -3%

NVIDIA Quadro K610M -3%

AMD Radeon HD 6750M -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M -2%

AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri) -2%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 0%

AMD Radeon HD 8550G

AMD Radeon HD 8570D 0%

AMD Radeon R5 M230 2%

AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) 3%

Intel HD Graphics 615 4%

AMD Radeon HD 8570M 5%

Intel UHD Graphics 615 7%

NVIDIA GeForce 820M 7%

NVIDIA Quadro 2000M 7%

AMD Radeon HD 8670M 9%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 3521%

100%

3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 03 - Standard 1024x768

21767 Points (12%)

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3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

11672 Points (25%)

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Heaven 3.0 - DX 11, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

10.8 fps (4%)

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - OpenGL, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

5.4 fps (3%)

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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024

9.8 fps (4%)

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SPECviewperf 12
Solidworks (sw-03) 1900x1060 +

Siemens NX (snx-02) 1900x1060 +

Showcase (showcase-01) 1900x1060 +

Medical (medical-01) 1900x1060 +

Maya (maya-04) 1900x1060 +

Energy (energy-01) 1900x1060 +

Creo (creo-01) 1900x1060 +

Catia (catia-04) 1900x1060 +

Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +

T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +

LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

62 Samples/s (1%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

132 Samples/s (1%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

575 Points (3%)

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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 detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.