Iris Graphics 540 and Radeon HD 8550 OEM - video card comparison
Iris Graphics 540
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Architecture
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Skylake GT3e
Turks
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
October 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
-
Core clock speed
300 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
189 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
480
Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
15.60
Memory type
eDRAM
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
eDRAM + 64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.97
N/A
Quick Sync
+
-