HD Graphics 3000 and Radeon HD 8550M - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
Radeon HD 8550M
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
February 2011
November 2012
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
850 MHz
Core clock speed
350 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
544.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
384
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
-
Texture fill rate
13.80
17.00
Memory type
System Shared
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
1 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131