Radeon HD 3550 and Radeon HD 8450 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3550
Radeon HD 8450 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
RV620
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2008
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
594 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
47.52 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
181 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
40
160
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.376
5.000
Memory type
DDR2
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
792 MHz
1334 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.336 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A