Radeon HD 8550 OEM and Radeon 9800 PRO - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8550 OEM
Radeon 9800 PRO
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
Turks
R350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
Core clock speed
650 MHz
380 MHz
Floating-point performance
624.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
-
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
3.040
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
680 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
21.76 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.0
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A